# 16-year-old SATA II SSD survives 1 petabyte of writes

> Everything in life has an expiry date, and that holds true even for the best SSDs on the market. A fascinating experiment conducted by the YouTube channel WolfyTech shows that SSDs are more durable than we think, even…

- **Source:** [Tom's Hardware](https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/16-year-old-sata-ii-ssd-survives-1-petabyte-of-writes-25x-over-the-drives-tbw-rating?utm_source=gearopen.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=feed&utm_content=6a3827ffe8976fcb37cdfd6b)
- **Published:** 2026-06-21
- **Category:** Computers & IT
- **Tags:** #petabyte #channel #experiment #sata #shows #ssds #survives #writes
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