– Is it realistic for the SSD in, say, an Xbox Series S to run out of writes/wear out if the user keeps downloading games?

Question

And is it possible to somehow quantify in an approximate way how many gigabytes the user would have to download before the SSD would wear itself out?

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Answer 1

You don’t need downloads to wear it out, the console keeps writing cache and memory images for quick resume purposes, which is actually a lot faster than downloading.

The cell write life is also much lower if it’s a TLC, about 500-1000.

So let’s assume it has 1000 write cycles on a 512G, that’s 512TBW. Assuming your daily writes are equivalent to quick resume games four times a day, each with 8GB write, that’s 32GB per day.

This gets you expected SSD lifespan of 16,000 days, forty three years if you keep this kind of usage every day. Even ten times the usage gives you 4.3 years of expected SSD life.