Intel X25M G2 Longevity

[philehidiot]

I have the above SSD. It's 9 or so years old now and still works just fine. The Intel SSD toolkit indicates it has about 99% of its life remaining and SMART reports the drive health is fine (although I'm unsure how useful SMART is on a solid state drive).

The question is how long do people think an SSD will go for before it pegs it? I think I'm going to see the controller fail before the NAND at this rate. There is no essential data on the drive and the important stuff is backed up, it'd just be inconvenient.

What do people think? Is nearly a decade long enough for an SSD or do you guys / dolls think it's worth running it for longer? I don't like hardware failures at inconvenient times and I'm seriously considering an M2 drive anyway but seeing this Intel toolkit report has made me stop and think it might be worth carrying on with what I have.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The Kingston Hyper 3K 120GB I won in 2012 on Hexus is still being used today in my current system. Regarding failures,the worst thing about how SSDs fail is that it is sudden and usually happens at boot.

[philehidiot]

This is now a secondary storage drive, I moved the OS, etc onto a larger drive some time ago (80GB isn't much these days). Really I feel it's a matter of convenience but I HATE failures because it always happens when I need something there and then. That said, you can't just go replacing everything that works fine every few years prophylactically as you'll end up wasting loads of money.

And I like my money. It's mine. And I'm a Yorkshireman.

[Hoonigan]

I was, until about two weeks ago, using a Corsair Force 3 SSD from 2011/2012. It was going just fine and have passed it over to a friend.

I'd say just keep using it, but regularly back up your data. See how long it can last, for science!

[smargh]

I have an X25-M G2 80GB in my daily driver, running 24/7 since 2009 when the X25-M was first released. Only powered off for a few lengthy power cuts, CPU/PSU swap, a couple of HDD/GPU upgrades etc.

Still going strong after 3230 days power-on time, 5.7TB written, 99% life and 113 power cycles.

The X25-M G2 is the A10 Warthog of SSDs. I keep an eye out on eBay to buy used low-mileage ones for random projects. I suspect every X25-M G2 will continue to work just fine, long after everyone here has died of old age. They will all probably even survive the heat death of the universe.