<div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">It's the literal age of the SSD I am really worried about -- 9+ years since mfg, 2.5yr of power-on hours. </div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Cells holding an electrical charge reliably after 10 years say, how much faith should I have in that?</div><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></span></span></font><i><font size="4"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">Ron S.</span></font></i></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 23, 2026 at 12:07\u202fAM William Park via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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33TB over 9years --> 150TB over 40years. Long enough, no?<br>
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I think, Thinkpad X220 + Samsung 850 are good combo oldies. X220
supports only SATA, so your upgrade option is bigger size only. Or,
new laptop. :-)<br>
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<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">So, here's the stats(from TLP) on my
9yo 1TB Samsung 850 EVO 2.5" SSD in an ancient TP X220 --</div>
<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">SMART info:<br>
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct = 0 <br>
9 Power_On_Hours = 21444 [h]<br>
12 Power_Cycle_Count = 3917 <br>
177 Wear_Leveling_Count = 98 [%]<br>
179 Used_Rsvd_Blk_Cnt_Tot = 0 <br>
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel = 35 [°C]<br>
241 Total_LBAs_Written = 33.382 [TB]<br>
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<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Only 2-ish % wear after writing
33TB(on my travel laptop that does do it's fair share of YT
downloads).</div>
<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">The implication, assuming linear
wear-down, is that it's good for about 1600TBW, which seems
unrealistically high as the drive is only rated for some
150TBW(as per data sheet!).</div>
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<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">I am not a fan of using these things
past 7 years, much less 9+ years. </div>
<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">It's is bare-metal backed up on a
monthly basis with crucial files stored on a mirrored
private cloud so a catastrophic failure will not be the end
of the world just a few hours of an image restore and
re-syncing cloud-y files.</div>
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<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">What would you do? Would you
rip/replace? Would you just let it be considering the silly
prices on SSDs these days?</div>
<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">2 days ago, I had to get 2 of a
Samsung 4TB NVMe beast with DRAM Cache in them and paying
$1850 each almost made me throw up.</div>
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