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I have western digital drives at work that have ran 24/7 for 10 years now (yes really), as I believe they will fail soon 4 years ago I made a clone of them for a backup for when they finally decide to quit.

As far as SSD's I have only had one fail it was about 5 years old. Luckily it stopped writing to the disk so I had a warning. I simply got another drive and imaged it over. 

Flight Simulator's - Prepar3d V5/MSFS | Operating System - WIN 11 | Main Board - GIGABYTE X870E Aorus Elite WIFI7 | CPU - AMD 9800X3D | RAM - CORSAIR 64GB 6600Mhz | Video Card - EVGA RTX3090 FTW3 Ultra Monitor - DELL 38" Ultrawide | Case - CORSAIR 750D Full Tower | CPU Cooling - CORSAIR H170i Elite LCD 420mm Push/Pull | Power Supply - EVGA 1000 G+ | Sound System - Definitive Technology ProMonitor 600 w/subwoofer

SSD endurance is a largely overblown problem for regular users. My 850 Evo from 2015 has about 60 TBW and still works great 7 years later. It has long since been relegated to being a secondary drive for Steam games etc.

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Theoretically, a SSD should outlive a HDD by a wide margin.  No motors, no platters spinning on a spindle, no head/arm assembly to wear and eventually chatter on the platter, less heat production.  Of course, if the SSD is using lowest cost bidder semiconductors, it's lifespan is probably going to be short.  You do get what you pay for which is why I always paid the premium for Western Digital HDDs and Samsung SSDs.

My computer: ABS Gladiator Gaming PC featuring an Intel 10700F CPU, EVGA CLC-240 AIO cooler (dead fans replaced with Noctua fans), Asus Tuf Gaming B460M Plus motherboard, 16GB DDR4-3000 RAM, 1 TB NVMe SSD, EVGA RTX3070 FTW3 video card, dead EVGA 750 watt power supply replaced with Antec 900 watt PSU.

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