I think your math is off:

Keys is one and two-fifth, so how we flip
Thirty-two grams raw, chop it in half, get sixteen, double it times three
We got forty-eight, which mean a whole lot of cream
Divide the profit by four, subtract it by eight
We back to sixteen, now add the other two that ‘Mega bringin through
So let’s see, if we flip this other key
Then that’s more for me, mad coke and mad leak
Plus a five hundred, cut in half is two-fifty
Now triple that times three, we got three quarters of another key
The Firm baby, volume one uhh..

ah, it is for anything you can fit it in – granted your usage pattern must be compliant.

DWPD ? Intel says 218TB write endurance, 5yr warranty. Capacity of SSD is 0.4TB (400GB). If you do the math: 218/365/5/0.4 = you get the 0.29 DWPD nobody mentions. How’s that ?

Divide total endurance by 365 = get DPWD for one year (= “in order to write 218TB in one year, you must be writing 1.5 DWPD with 400GB capacity drive because 400GB x 365 days x 1.5 times each day = 218TB in a year”).

Divide that result by 5 = get DWPD for life-span of 5 years what is warranty period. You won’t use that drive for so long, sure. Realistically you can replace number 5 in equation above with 2 or 3, because 400GB will be extremely tight for your workloads not in three years, but much sooner.

Divide that result by 0.4TB (capacity of drive) and you have the DWPD you were looking for.

Yes I know 0.29 DWPD for 5 years (or identical calculation netting 0.48 DPWD calculated for 3 years) is nothing to get too much excited. Hang on :

On the other hand, you have to understand DWPD is not the main benefit of this particular model. Considering the target market which definitely was NOT super-heavy server/datacenter class AND PRICE [!!!!!!!], this is one phenomenal NVMe offer regardless of performance, which is staggering of course.

To be honest : there is nothing NVMe in the world in this capacity AND price now. We can’t have everything : performance, capacity, price, endurance. Choose two, maximum three. Not all 🙂

For enterprise offerings with “appealing” DWPD, you have to pay 10x more. That’s it.

Technical note : if you heavily overprovision this drive, say 25% to 33%, you definitely will get at least 5 DWPD endurance. The problem with Intel is it will brick itself (either turn into read-only mode or real brick) after media wear indicator drops down to zero, which basically means “NAND is not guaranteed to hold the data anymore”. Intel would survive much much more than rated endurance, but… this is what it is.

All in all, 750 is model that already got into IT Hall Of Fame. There were/are/will be several phenomenal SSD models, such as Crucial M4, Sammy 840pro, 850pro (the very first 3D commercially available with infinite endurance), Sammy 845DC Pro, Intel 710/720/750, all those P / S3xxx models from Intel… this one, 750, is absolutely there. No discussion about it.

Sean, still hiring editors who understand something about storage and SSDs ? 🙂