Just to fill in the primocache details
lotta browsing today, downloads to other drives and not this one.
PC has been on for 10 hours.
37% reduction in writes is huge - but at 2GB a day, even a cheap SSD won't really be affected too much by this.
It's the budget low end drives used poorly that die fast, some of them are under 100TBW.
It's the artificially inflated writes that kill them - things like broken games spamming log file entries at 1KB each write on a TLC or QLC drive that's 99% full (Or users torrenting and filling those same drives) with low RAM and windows writing to em even more.
Some drives probably inflate the writes when they run out of cache too, but it's not something you could really know about other than when drives have these values inflate for little reason or suddenly die - their internal workings and logic is secretive.
These drives have been used pretty heavily, but also on systems with large amounts of RAM
Yet the worst is only at 38TBW
Ahah! found it at last
WD hide the TBW ratings on their green drives and rate them in hours/years instead, based on some mythical usage figure that is meaningless
The actual ratings can be quite worrying
WD Internal SSD Endurance and Warranty Periods
5 years, but 100TBW? Do they math that out and argue with warranty if you use more than 20TBW a year?
The SN350 series is the one I always think of and forget the model name of, because 40/60/80TBW is far, far below everyone else in that capacity - especially if it's divided by that 3 year warranty period.
Who'd want an 80TBW drive when you can get 1,200TBW in the same capacity?
