Instead of 13 years under the original calculation based on 1 DWPD, it's just over 8 years, which is still a mighty long time for that level of usage.Īs much as it may be valid to discuss down to 0.3 DWPD, that's pretty much in the realm of the average user, who isn't likely to encounter this sort of problem.

The article has been updated to be based on a 3000 usage figure, though the point of the matter still stands as we are still working from generalizations. I searched based on your 3000 figure and it seems that Google somewhat agrees. The article used figures I determined in 2020 for an explainer, and were quite difficult to ascertain at the time. If you are a heavy-duty user and you buy an 8GB machine. That's unlikely to be a real problem for most people, but I guess time will tell. OTOH, it's possible that the 8GB machines are so fast even when paging that users don't realize that they're thrashing their disk.