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Your math is a little out there.
It's a 2TB drive and the endurance is 1200TB, so you can erase the drive at best 600 times before you have reached the endurance level. However taking write amplification into account, even at 1.2 would put it at more like 500 erase cycles.
There is a tremendous amount of grey around this issue, but the testing methodology is kind of off too (the JEDEC testing standard for CONSUMER SSD's). From memory it's something like when the writes are 10 degrees celsius hotter than the storage temperature (40 working/30 storage), how many times you can erase the drive before 3% of the drives lose data after 1 year.
So, what that means to consumers, if you are near the write endurance, what the endurance is telling you is that if you store the drive at 30 degrees for a year there should be about a 3% chance that it will lose data. Most consumers would probably go ??? to that.
Zatick_NZ well that's embarrassing. I mixed up 2 TB with 2 GB. Other than that I was doing pretty good!
- Zatick_NZ4 months agoRising Traveler
That model had 2GB of DRAM cache, maybe that's what got you :)