The first wave of consumer-grade SATA SSDs arrived in the 64GB and 128GB capacities, and for the storage they offered, buyers had to pay a premium. Thankfully, based on the torture test showcased by a user, a SanDisk solid-state drive with 64GB storage has gone through a 16-year gauntlet, surpassing not just 9 petabytes of written data but also recording more than 140,000 write cycles. However, the drive is far from operating at 100 percent health. Older SSDs arrived with SLC and MLC NAND flash, which were known for their durability, but even the SanDisk drive has developed uncorrectable errors […]

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