SSD Endurance: How Long 600TBW Really Lasts at 20GB a Day
Burning a 1TB SSD's 600TBW inside five years takes 329GB of writes a day. At 20GB a day it takes 82 years. Converted to DWPD, every capacity lands on the same 0.33.
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PCIe Gen4 vs Gen5 SSD: When Double the Bandwidth Does Nothing
A PCIe 5.0 SSD reads sequentially at 14,800MB/s, roughly double a Gen4 drive. Measured game load times differ by under 0.2 seconds. Here is the bandwidth, heat and endurance math that explains the gap between the two facts.