16-year-old SATA II SSD survives 1 petabyte of writes — 25x more than the drive's endurance rating
Summary
A Tom's Hardware piece covers a WolfyTech experiment where a 16-year-old SATA II SSD survived 1 petabyte of writes, about 25x its rated TBW. The article emphasizes TBW as a warranty guideline rather than a hard failure threshold and suggests the workload relied on DRAM caching rather than NAND wear, highlighting nuances in SSD endurance and aging hardware.