Aug 21 2010, 08:21 PM
QUOTE(everling @ Aug 21 2010, 06:35 PM)
The lifespan of an SSD really isn't an issue for most home users. At 5,000 write cycles for an 80GB SSD, in a perfect use, it will accept 400,000 GB of writes or 219 GB of writes a day for 5 years. Even taking the write amplification factor, which TRIM partly mitigates, into consideration, you should still be able to write 100 GB a day (20 GB more than capacity) for five years before failure.
To lose your SSD to wear and tear, you would have to fill up your SSD every single day for five years! Wear and tear is not a real problem.
NIce info. I google more and found this article. 1 relavant quote are: " Intel estimates that the 80GB X25-M will last for five years with "much greater than" 100GB of write-erase per day. That's a relatively long time for much more data than most folks are likely to write or erase on a daily basis.To lose your SSD to wear and tear, you would have to fill up your SSD every single day for five years! Wear and tear is not a real problem.
Actual drive lifespans aside, Intel rates the X25-M's Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) at 1.2 million hours. "
Source: http://techreport.com/articles.x/15433
So definitely the intel X-25M SSD can last more than 5 years with no wear and tear problem
This post has been edited by mikelanding: Aug 21 2010, 08:28 PM
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