Is your SSD wearing out?

[Uncle Gizmo]

I didn't know this, but it seems possible that your solid state drive can wear out!

MIT researchers create a super-fast, super-tough, super-slidey transistor and claim that in '10 to 20 years from now could change the world'

The ferroelectric material transistor could be used to make NVMe SSDs last a whole lot longer.

www.pcgamer.com

 

[Minty]

They have always had a finite number of operations before a failure might occur.
However it has always been a pretty big number. My current SSD quotes;

TBW: Terabytes Written * Warrantied TBW for 970 EVO Plus: 1,200 TBW for 2TB model.
* 5-years or TBW, whichever comes first. For more information on the warranty, please find the enclosed warranty statement in the package.

Which is from here
https://www.samsung.com/uk/memory-storage/nvme-ssd/970-evo-plus-nvme-m-2-ssd-2tb-mz-v7s2t0bw/