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Would not agree here. I bought NVMe Samsung 970 Evo SSD back in 2019, putting it in my ESXi box for VMs I do development on, so daily building of OS images. I was afraid at first that I'm going to ruin it fast this way, but after 3 years of "compiling on SSDs" it has only ~10% "wear" level, which makes the time I'll go past its TBW far past its warranty. And it's much faster for this usage scenario than spinning rust.
Details? Did it use a Swap Partition? TRIM enabled? Was it ZIL/SLOG device??
This reminds me for LED bulbs. LEDs have long life, they can work 10 years... and similar praises. But the bulb has some electronics (PCB) and usually it cannot work long time because of overheating. And the "excellent" LED bulb from good brand stops working after few months.
damn ! it's a really bad day! a SSD then MB, 2023 starts with heavy costs.
If the whole socket came off the board is was probably a bad solder job.
What model?
About once a month I run this:
That does not seem like a wear off...
That's why I generally don't recommend HP to anyone asking me which brand (notebook, printer etc) to buy. Maybe their server equipment is better quality, I don't know... but I don't see why it should.
Since this doesn't happen often "enough", I never saw this in SSD usage reviews when one of my SSDs did the same thing. Well it was a Chinese noname cheap thing... very silly of me buying this, I'm sure. And whatever I was able to find in superficial & "serious" articles alike was all but praises and how this advanced technology is undeniably winning over the market .
Yeah, when you deal with a large "estate" of laptops, you tend to see more faults. There are generally two failure modes. Total failure, as in the system doesn't even "see" the attached SSD and SMART failures, either wear level reached 100% or other failed "sector" reaching a limit which results in the SSD switching to Read Only mode.
Neither did I but one month after installing the new SSD the wear leveling count jumped from 0 to 1 and two months after that the wear leveling count jumped from 1 to 2, with LBAs written in the billions, sure the SSD may have lasted a few years but I've had hard drives that have lasted on average 8-12 years with some lasting 16, it didn't feel right that I was "consuming" this SSD at a rate that might be higher than the spinning rust I had here. So I started fiddling around with a sysctl, adjusted the TXG timeout and put the log on cheaper more disposable media. It's been almost a year now and the wear leveling count remains at 2, with about 2.8 TB written to this 25% full 1 TB drive: about 1/300 of its design lifetime.
