[rakah]

This seems to confirm what I'd read earlier, which is that they're cutting the TBW durability rating in half for this generation. I don't have PCIE 4 at this point, so I'm considering sticking with a 970 for an upcoming upgrade.

[Rafuino]

May I ask what workload(s) you have that cause you to write that much to your SSD? Looks like with this drive you could write an average of ~330GB per day over 5 years and stay within the 600TB write warranty (on the 1TB version, at least). So that's 0.3 drive writes per day, which isn't unheard of for non-enterprise drives.

[javawizard]

Not the GP but I'm in a similar position. I run Hauptwerk[0], a software package that simulates pipe organs. It regenerates an on-disk cache every time an instrument's parameters are changed and this cache can be tens of gigabytes in size. 5 parameter changes a day for some of the larger instruments would put me over your 330 GB/day threshold.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauptwerk

[Rafuino]

Super interesting, thank you! I imagine there are other music software out there that have similar behavior. What kind of storage do you use to run Hauptwerk and take the beating from all those writes?

[javawizard]

I've got a 2 TB Sabrent NVMe drive right now. Apart from budgeting for a replacement drive every few years I don't do anything special.

[ClumsyPilot]

This is facinating - but would Optane or large RAM-disk work for you?