I was told that using a SSD for video recording was going to kill it...

[Spirch]

might not be interesting for most but here it is, almost 2 years of 24/7 continuous recording

keep in mind that I bought this as an experiment during summer of 2023 when the ssd price was low, this was like half the price of today and i needed, not wanted, a 2.5 inch drive and the hdd price was close or nearly the same




just wanted to share my experience ... and i should have bought more than one drive!

 

[d5775927]

might not be interesting for most but here it is, almost 2 years of 24/7 continuous recording

keep in mind that I bought this as an experiment during summer of 2023 when the ssd price was low, this was like half the price of today and i needed, not wanted, a 2.5 inch drive and the hdd price was close or nearly the same


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just wanted to share my experience ... and i should have bought more than one drive!

You only wrote 181TB, according to the specs:

Samsung 870 EVO SATA SSD | Samsung Semiconductor Global

Samsung 870 EVO achieves the maximum speed of SATA interface. Intelligent TurboWrite maintains long-term high performance. Available from 250GB to 4TB.

semiconductor.samsung.com

The drive shuld be okay up to 2400TB.
However, it was not designes for 24/7 writes, surprising it works well.

 

[Spirch]

You only wrote 181TB, according to the specs:

Samsung 870 EVO SATA SSD | Samsung Semiconductor Global

Samsung 870 EVO achieves the maximum speed of SATA interface. Intelligent TurboWrite maintains long-term high performance. Available from 250GB to 4TB.

semiconductor.samsung.com

The drive shuld be okay up to 2400TB.
However, it was not designes for 24/7 writes, surprising it works well.

true but only 2% of it life is gone (probably close to 3% at this point) for 7.5% of 2400TB

people said that writing video continuously would kill it in a year or two, so far so good i would say

based on what i am seeing, if the electronic doesnt die, i have another, close to, 12-ish years out of it. TBD of course haha

if this ever happen, it would have outlived a normal HDD, remain to be seen

 

[bp2008]

For a Samsung drive, I'd use Samsung Magician software to look at drive health in case the third-party app doesn't interpret all the data correctly.

But yes, the notion that an SSD will die prematurely if you write continuous surveillance video to it is an oversimplification. The thing that really matters is the SSD's write endurance versus the rate you would be writing to it. An 870 EVO 4TB being rated for 2400 TBW (terabytes written) is on the high end for a consumer SSD. On the other hand, a cheap low capacity SSD (e.g. 256 GB or less) could easily have endurance in the ballpark of 60-120 TB, and if an unwitting Blue Iris user was to write all their video to one of those for example, it is not inconceivable that they would exhaust the rated endurance in a year or less.

It should also be noted that the rated endurance is typically just a limit for warranty purposes. With good luck, an SSD can last far longer than its rated endurance, particularly if the manufacturer was being intentionally conservative when deciding the endurance rating.