Actually, given the limit of 10k writes per block for commercial SSDs, the effective life of an SSD is:silhouette wrote:Apparently the bigger the drive the longer they last potentially. All to do with the Write Endurance Rate!!!
a) Proportional to the ongoing spare space on the drive.
b) Inversely proportional to the amount of writing.
By my calculations, unless you are using your SSDs for 24x7 activities, like web databases or a super-busy professional massively multi-track studio, a minimum of 10-15GB spare space on an SSD will allow it to last 100+ years, which means that it will probably be obsolete or fail catastrophically before that.