> I have barely scratched the surface of their usage life despite writing 35TB on them they still have 95% life over 42,000 hours of operation.
What are you using these drives for, if I may ask? It seems to barely be used for anything, or I'm an outlier here. Here's an example of my main drive in my desktop/work computer:
Model: Samsung SSD 980 PRO 2TB
Power On Hours: 6,286
Data Written: 117,916,388 [60.3 TB]
I'm just an average developer (I think), although I do bounce around a lot between languages/projects/manage VMs and whatnot, and some languages (Rust) tend to write a lot of data to disk when compiling.
But the ratio difference seems absurd, you have ~0.0008 written per hour, while I have ~0.0096, that's a huge difference.
Both of these are games, so they tend to sit with contents for longer. My boot SSD is 31TB in 6183 hours so quite a bit faster usage than those old drive but about half your rate. Its very workload dependent how long SSDs last. 16GB a month is extremely slow, much slower than my usage at 120GB a day. SSDs you could write their entire contents every day and they would still be working 5 years later but probably not 10.
My main OS disk (256 GB SATA) reports 40k power on hours and 27.5 TBW. I've also got a 4 TB nvme drive that's at 16.5k power on hours and 5.7 TBW and an 8 TB SATA drive that's at 18.5k hours and 25 TBW.
A server machine with multiple busy databases has 24.6 TiB written in 1349 hours. That’s on ZFS. As such, I’d say your usage patterns appear rather non-average.
What are you using these drives for, if I may ask? It seems to barely be used for anything, or I'm an outlier here. Here's an example of my main drive in my desktop/work computer:
I'm just an average developer (I think), although I do bounce around a lot between languages/projects/manage VMs and whatnot, and some languages (Rust) tend to write a lot of data to disk when compiling.But the ratio difference seems absurd, you have ~0.0008 written per hour, while I have ~0.0096, that's a huge difference.
Here's what I ran to get the data, in case others wanna check theirs: https://gist.github.com/victorb/f120f5b9bcc1c04a4c3d0107f633...