I want to sacrafice some SSD drives to the Gods

[JoeAtWork]

Hi All,

I have 4 SSD drives that I want to basically ruin. They are consumer trash 120 gig drives that I have all of less than $100 in and I want the worst test I can do to wear them out. I assume that would be raidZ2 with a script to write data till the disk is full, delete the data, log the run/increment and copy again.

Is there any thing I can do to make this wear out faster?

The reason I am doing this is I fear that SSD's really do wear out and Synology has RAID F1 where they intentionaly push more workload to one SSD assuming that ONE disk will fail first. I am not sure on the fact that all flash on all disk are perfect and always work right. I am more of a believer that all manufacturers have stupid issues that put limits in the firmware so at 40,000 hours your product fails, bucause nobody should be using that in 5 years.... like how HPE as done this recently....

Thanks,
Joe

 

[Samuel Tai]

This TechReport article on torture-testing SSDs to failure may give you some ideas.

Introducing the SSD Endurance Experiment

SSDs are pretty awesome. They’re fast enough to provide a palpable improvement in overall system responsiveness and affordable enough that even budget rigs can get in on the action. Without...

techreport.com

 

[HoneyBadger]

The reason I am doing this is I fear that SSD's really do wear out

They definitely do; I'm not sure where you got the idea they didn't. The "SSD Endurance Experiment" linked by @Samuel Tai above shows you just how far above the "rated limits" you can push them though.

Regarding the HPE/Dell/etc firmware bugs in SSDs that have caused them to brick themselves; well, I'll refer you to the idiom known as Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." ;)

 

[Elliot Dierksen]

I'll refer you to the idiom known as Hanlon's Razor: "Never assume malice when stupidity will suffice."

I have my own amalgamation of that sort of notion: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity or sloth"

 

[HoneyBadger]

or sloth

Important addition (and I've corrected my text to reflect the original Razor) - cutting corners and lack of planning ends in poor results.

"Do it right, or do it twice."

 

[JoeAtWork]

I know they wear out but if you have 4 identical ones do all four die in x hours or is it x months?

 

[sretalla]

if you have 4 identical ones do all four die in x hours or is it x months?

It's not time, it's writes... look for the TBW figure (Terabytes Written) in the drive specs.

You can keep data written to an SSD for reading as many times as you want pretty much forever (practically speaking) if you don't keep writing over it again and again.

If you have 4 mirrored drives, they are likely to get to their estimated max TBW point simultaneously... individual drives may vary a little.