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Where was this standard for the bombastic claims that QLC is "abysmal" compared to a class of disk that includes undernourished laptop drives? There was a hell of a lot of "ignoring all evidence" going on there. I cut that analysis some major slack by using an enterprise-class drive instead of...

So if you'd like to actually dispute the results as being significantly different from what I'm saying, go right ahead. ...but considering that the OP appears to have just been making things up (and not even researching to see if their results were being repeated elsewhere) I wasn't really...

...and yet that still does not make what I said an MTBF. It was an estimation of the expectation users have that a drive (as well as the whole computer) is likely to last about five years, after which they'll probably just replace the whole machine if it doesn't up and die first, combined with...

This is just aggressively wrong. I happen to have a brand new Samsung QVO (which happens to be QLC) 860 and a new Western Digital 2Tb "Enterprise" disk right across the room from me that the nice ninjas at UPS brought this very afternoon. Out of the box on an ASUS Prime motherboard with a...

Okay, so why are you "clarifying" this at me when I've said not one thing about MTBF. I was very clear about a volume of writes over a period of time, with that period of time being how long people generally expect their drives to last. And what does this have to do with anything? More...

That is precisely why I said "normal use". Please don't pointlessly muddy the waters like this. Users generally know if their use is "normal" or not, and it's not that hard to figure out how many writes a day someone who isn't an "normal" user is doing and extrapolate longevity from there...

The garden timer is an excellent idea. Keeping lithium-ion batteries charged to 100% all the time is nearly a sure-fire way to burn them up, as they do not handle this use case well at all. No Indian burial ground required. Maximizing their lifespan means running them between 20% & 80% with...

With respect to SSD longevity, they're supposed to generally manage five years of normal use without a problem now. I used to worry about making drives last longer than that, so I've traditionally made certain my drives led very cushy lives, came from the best families (largely Western Digital...

FWIW these "hexagons" are expected to provide grounding. If it's really that cheap of a case, a small blob of JB Weld (or JB Quick) is probably a better idea than Teflon tape because metal epoxy is conductive.

Typically the way one tests this without special equipment is by doing exactly what you were doing... booting with fewer devices attached. Being that it's several years old, and that aging affects both PSU output and PSU stability, if the various PSU calculators online think your PSU is only...