SSD Testing

[Evan-WMS]

Considering that excessive writes shorten a SSD drives life. What would be an acceptable strategy to test an SSD, but not significantly impact it's predicted life. We typically do a 4 hour burn on a new test setup, I'm looking for suggestions on how to include testing of the SSD device in this testing.

[David (PassMark)]

It isn't really an issue.
The chips used in new SSD's typically have a life span of 100,000 to 1,000,000 cycles.

So yes you are using up some of the life of the SSD (maybe < 0.001% ), but the amount is tiny.

Even if it 3 orders of magnitude worse, a 1% loss of life would probably be acceptable to be sure the drive actually worked. (But if you could really use 1% of the disk's life in 4 hours, then the entire life span of the disk would be just a month, and this is not the case. Lifespans are typically 5 to 10 years, better than traditional HDD in some cases).

[Evan-WMS]

Thanks much for responding so quickly. Your answer is what I was looking for!

Evan

It isn't really an issue.
The chips used in new SSD's typically have a life span of 100,000 to 1,000,000 cycles.

So yes you are using up some of the life of the SSD (maybe < 0.001% ), but the amount is tiny.

Even if it 3 orders of magnitude worse, a 1% loss of life would probably be acceptable to be sure the drive actually worked. (But if you could really use 1% of the disk's life in 4 hours, then the entire life span of the disk would be just a month, and this is not the case. Lifespans are typically 5 to 10 years, better than traditional HDD in some cases).