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by gcp 4863 days ago
c't has a lang duration test where it became obvious many SSD's were dying long before they should according to the theoretical numbers. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be available for free: https://www.heise.de/artikel-archiv/ct/2012/03/066_SSD-Zerst...

This technology is too dependent on software to make these kind of models even remotely approximate reality.

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Here's a forum doing write tests on a variety of mlc and slc drives...ongoing:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?271063-SS...

Also, most MLC has between 10k and 1k writes, not 100k. TLC is even worse!