Originally Posted by
nkedel
Which is talking about 4 year old SSDs.
A "degraded" SSD these days will still write at 100MB+ per second, and with an IOPS rate of around 1000. Both of these are very slow by the standards of SSDs, but the former is as good as a spinning laptop drive, and the latter about 5x better.
For most people, that's plenty good enough. If you've got particularly demanding workloads, it may not be.
Yes the article is old, but the description of why performance degrades still holds true. I agree that throughput speeds on a degraded drive have improved, but the root cause is still the extra write cycle which also counts against longevity.
If I was getting 100+ MB/s on a SSD rated for 300+ MB/s write I wouldn't be a happy camper -- don't think anyone selects a SSD to be "as good as a spinning laptop drive." Sort of like buying a Ferrari that can only do 60 because it needs a tune up, although it is "plenty good enough"
