Crucial P5 2TB CT2000P5SSD8 (3D NAND, NVMe) Internal Gaming SSD, up to 3400MB/s

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The more you write to them, the more SSDs wear out. Most SSD manufacturers specify how many bytes can be written to the drive within the device’s guarantee. If your SSD fails, and you get a replacement via warranty service, that replacement won’t have your data. The information we’re looking for is Total Host Writes. In the case of my C: drive, I’ve written 18.5TB to the drive in the roughly two years I’ve owned the machine. That bodes well for the life expectancy of this drive if my usage pattern doesn’t change. A TBW of 600 with a usage rate of 9.25TB/year (half of the 18.5 I used in two years) would indicate 64 years of life left. Well beyond the calendar warranty of five years, and certainly longer than my machine — and I — are likely to be around. If nothing else, the mere fact that they could misspeak so egregiously does NOT speak well of their reliability! :( Reply Micron’s replacement gate architecture combines both charge traps with the company’s CMOS-under array technology, allowing for a 30% smaller die size when compared to competitors’ flash. When compared to the company’s previous-generation 96L TLC, the new replacement gate flash replaces the polysilicon gates with metal and takes advantage of a different etching method, resulting in greatly reduced cell-to-cell capacitive coupling issues, lowered resistance levels, and allows for increased program pulse ramping. All this works in unison to provide not only lower read and write latencies and boosted throughput, but also improved reliability and endurance.

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I need to point out something important. Just because something is warranted for a certain amount of time, or a certain number of writes, doesn’t mean it can’t fail sooner — perhaps even much sooner.I got a Samsung 850 EVO 250GB (which was a popular SSD for years) which has a official rated write life of 75TBW. but in the real world it will likely do AT LEAST double that before any failure from writing data to it occurs. to put that into perspective… if someone writes 40GB of data to the SSD EVERY SINGLE DAY for 10 years straight that’s still only 147TBW. it’s pretty safe to say the average person won’t be doing that level of data writing, especially not on a consistent day-to-day basis for that length of time. Hi Leo. Thanks for the article. I installed CrystalDiskinfo and I noticed one of the items it lists is E7- SSD Life Left. Mine has 00000000000063 under Raw Values. Do you know what this means? Reply Or is it doing the same as the Seagate 530 at 1,200 MTps ?Your guess is as good as mine. Unfortunately, Crucial would not disclose this information.

Crucial P2 3D NVMe PCIe M.2 2TB CT2000P2SSD8 UserBenchmark: Crucial P2 3D NVMe PCIe M.2 2TB CT2000P2SSD8

You can see that the warrantied life is proportionate to size: 600TBW per terabyte of device storage, which makes sense. A device twice as big should be able to handle twice as much data in its life. I found this description of that value: “SSD Life Left. Supported by few manufacturers, this parameter represents calculated lifespan remaining in the disk based on certain equations. When normalized, it reads 100 (100%) for healthy drives to 1 (1%) for dead SSD’s. Sometimes replaced with Percentage of the Rated Lifetime Used.” — 63 hex is 99% life left, so I’d say you’re in great shape. :-) (Source: https://hetmanrecovery.com/recovery_news/predicting-ssd-failures-ssd-specific-smart-values.htm ) Reply Crucial’s P5 Plus helpfully comes with an M.2 screw, in case your system came without one (or you’ve lost yours in a late-night carpet tragedy). Crucial also provides the company’s own SSD toolbox and some cloning software to support the P5 Plus. Dude! You need to look at that second screenshot — the one for the Crucial CT2000P5SSD8 2TB (yeesh, what a mouthful!) — again, and more closely! We keep hearing that SSDs and other flash-based drives wear out. Particularly when it comes to SSDs, there are ways you can see how close to wearing out your drive might be.NVMe SSD Driver enables additional management and support features for Micron and Crucial SSDs in Windows Operating Systems. According to the program “CrystalDiskInfo” my Total Host Writes = 5039 GB after two years of usage. That is equal to 5.039 TB. My SSD is a Samsung 860 Pro 1 TB. How can my usage be 5.039 on a 1 TB SSD drive? Thanks for a great report!!!