I am waiting to see how long these things last. SSDs might wear out
faster than a hard drive if you are rewriting the data a lot like your
swap files. They do have a finite limit.

My C: boot drive is a Samsung EVO 840 250GB SSD drive. I have about 160GB
of data on that drive.

techreport.com tested this drive to see how long it would take to kill
them:

http://techreport.com/review/27909/t...nt-theyre-all-
dead

"Errors didn't strike the Samsung 840 Series until after 300TB of writes,
and it took over 700TB to induce the first failures."


I have owned the EVO 840 exactly two years now. According to
CrystalDiskInfo, I have put 19478 hours on it with 6978 GB total writes.
It's still showing 100% Good. That translates to roughly 3.5 TB per year
which means the drive should last me about 85 years if my usage stays the
same (longer than I'll be alive).


I also have a 1TB Samsung EVO 850 SSD drive that I use for video work. It's
only a year old, with 12210 hours on it and 28,859 GB total writes. It
still shows 100% Good also. Even though it's half as old, I obviously push
it a lot harder with video work. If I continue to write about 29 TB per
year to that drive, I should get another 7+ years from it before it starts
having errors.


I'm betting I will upgrade to newer drives for more capacity before I
actually wear them out.

Anthony Watson
www.watsondiy.com
www.mountainsoftware.com