You're welcome to get whatever you like... but it seems like you sort of ignored the point being made. There is no effective 'shortened' lifespan. That 3.5 years figure was based off a RIDICULOUS amount of data writing that is impossible to achieve by even 1/10th without doing stress tests 24/7. And even then, is just the WLC, not the actual life of the drive.
I got my drive on Nov 1, 2012. It's been 3 months since then. I guarantee that I make more data writes than you will, and have written 1.47TB. 1.47*4= ~6TB a year. Based off that information, my drive ought to last me.... about... well longer than I'll be alive, basically.
Again, you can make your choices, but don't make choices based off misinterpreted information.
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I apologize, I indeed have misinterpreted the review and you are completely correct. It assumes 10x write amplification, but in real life, with compression, the amplification ratio drops below 1x, which reduces the wear level. 140TB written data is indeed a bit hard to reach.
I suppose that the 840 is still a fairly good alternative.
Samsung 840.
That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange Aeons even Death may die.
I use the (now discontinued) Kingston HyperX 240G (the blue one). I think it's an awesome SSD, performs well and uses Intel MLC NAND with a rated 5,000 P/E cycle endurance. You may find it increasingly difficult to find one now that it is discontinued, and tbh you probably won't see the benefits of an extra 2,000 P/E cycles unless you're an extremely heavy user but I just wanted to give this one an honorable mention. I recently added a second one in RAID 0 and with RST 11.6+ RAID0 TRIM support I'm getting fantastic results (around 1050 MB/sec in both read and write).
I would go for the M4, I think the 830 has gone up in price making the M4 the better drive price/performance wise. If you can get a 830 for about the same price as the M4 you could go with the 830. But they are pretty equal i think.
M4 is probably the best bang for your buck, 840 isn't that far behind. Whichever is more readily available where you are at a better price is the best way to go. As you have gathered by now unless you get unlucky and receive a DOA or unit that will be covered under warranty anyway it will outlast its sizes use. Only other thing you may want to check is as you said its for a notebook just double check that your notebook doesn't require 7mm form factor drives (I think most ssd's are anyway but just play it safe and double check that).
Even with all those writes, you will not reach close to 10GB/day. Not even half more than likely. So you are looking at a drive that will still last longer than any other component in your system, even at half the life. I mean, if I were a large company that was running huge backups or other writes to an SSD, daily, for whatever reason, than that lifespan would bother me. As a home user/gamer who does not write large files daily, I think the lifespan of the cheaper one is more than good enough as it will last at least until they come down in price or larger drives are available for cheaper.
In other words, you are more likely to replace it before it goes dead anyway.
If you were in charge of procurement in the IT department of a business with that kind of work-load, why the hell would you be using consumer level SSDs in the first place?I mean, if I were a large company that was running huge backups or other writes to an SSD, daily, for whatever reason, than that lifespan would bother me.
Intel 710 series, OCZ Velodrive, OCZ Z-Drive, Kingston SSDnow E100 & Seagate Pulsar.2. There are others as well but I cba to find them atm.
For military design I guess maybe http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820248008 should be in order.
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what kind of speeds? (1-1,5 Gb/s? read/write?)
something allong these lines or am i thinking too small on the enterprise scale of things? (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227744)