Originally Posted By: Leovigild

Mine is a 3 yr. old Acer SSD, hasn't failed me yet, ...

They are all pretty reliable, but there are differences.
If the use is mostly read-only like a BiaB-dedicated drive would be, it should last for decades. If it's read-write intensive it'll wear out quicker. Even the higher density, lower usage parts usually come with a guarantee of a couple of years.

I believe what they do is build the chips with a fairly high percentage of redundancy and swap out areas as they get tired. They also try to share writes about the chips to even out the 'wear'.

It's something to be aware of, but not something to worry about excessively.


Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful.
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