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hippy in reply to @ectoplasmosis
Thanks.

This was the first google result I got. Is one brand bettr than another or do you have to deep dive into their endurance properties to pick?

https://www.mrmemory.co.uk/ssd-upgrades/dell/inspiron-notebook/7391-2-in-1

Maybe I'd be better off using an external drive in a cooler and/or stronger caddy. It's just annoying having to remember another thing to carry around.

Crucial
Life Expectancy: 1.5 million hours (MTBF)
Endurance:
```
500GB - 110TBW
1TB - 220TBW
2TB - 440TBW
4TB - 800TBW
```
Kingston
Endurance:
```
512GB: 400TBW
1TB: 800TBW
2TB: 1.6PBW
4TB: 3.2PBW
```
Samsung 970
Life Expectancy: 1.5 million hours (MTBF)
Endurance:
```
250GB - 150TBW
500GB - 300TBW
1TB - 600TBW
2TB - 1,200TBW
```
Samsung 980
Life Expectancy: 1.5 million hours (MTBF)
Endurance:
```
250GB - 150TBW
500GB - 300TBW
1TB - 600TBW
2TB - 1,200TBW
```

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ectoplasmosis in reply to @hippy

What do you use the laptop for?

High write endurance only matters if you’re constantly dumping massive files onto the drive, over and over, all day. Or running a high transaction rate database on it, writing millions of tiny blocks every second.

Just get a Samsung 980 Pro or WD SN850, it’ll be fine.

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hippy in reply to @ectoplasmosis

I'm not. But I don't like wasting half a day or more trying to sort out dead machines so I was looking for durable over fast.

I'm half tempted to just replicate my main drive to a cloud provider or something and then sync with the laptop so the computers are quicker to replace when something dies. Personal DR planning...

I mean, I did get 8 years or so out of my PC's boot drive, that was a Samsung 950 PRO M.2 512GB NVMe SSD

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