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How is this SSD shaping up?

Hi folks,
I have a Samsung 850 Evo SSD 500gb must be going on for four years now, I have installed the Samsung Magician software and it gives me the following info.
Drive health Good, 47.5TB written ( I do a fairly frequent image restore with Acronis True Image)
Sequential read is 213 and write is 228 Randon read is 7568 and write is 11718.
It is a 10 year old pc and the SSD makes all the difference to its speed, will stick with it for a while yet.
So just wondering considering how much I write to it, is there a few years left in the SSD yet do you think, and how does those read and write speeds compare to modern SSD's in a better computer?
Many thanks for any info.

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  • DoaM
    DoaM Posts: 11,863 Forumite
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    I have an 860 Evo, about a year old. Latest results below:

    Drive Condition: Good
    3.3TB written
    Seq Read 552 MB/s
    Seq Write 513 MB/s
    Random Read 13,183 IOPS
    Random Write 13,183 IOPS
  • forgotmyname
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    Sandisk SSD Plus.   500GB.   Powered on for 405 days.  31.6TB written.  Reserve space still at 100%.
    Media wear indicator. 1.2%

    Sandisk Ultra Plus.   256GB.   Powered on for 488 days.  14TB written.  Reserve space still at 100%.
    Wear indicator is at 2.56%

    Next upgrade will probably be to a Samsung Pro. From what I gather they will outlast most other SSD's.
    Petabytes worth of writes before failure.


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  • mttylad
    mttylad Posts: 1,520 Forumite
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    Anotherquestion, your SSD is fine and should continue for several more years yet.
    By all means get another if you upgrade the PC but I'd not worry for now.
  • fred246
    fred246 Posts: 3,620 Forumite
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    I have been repairing and upgrading PCs for a good while. Mechanical hard drives were the part that always seemed to fail. My first SSD didn't last long (Kingston SSD Now). I only buy Samsung Pro now. I imagine using them for 10-20 years. Hardware improvements seem to have really plateaued and my storage requirements are low. Sometimes interfaces change. Be interesting to see how long I get out of them.
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