Back in May 2015 Guru3D an OCZ Storage solutions started a test that will last two years, ten of our Guru3D forum members received a OCZ SSD. We are following these guys for these two years, time for another update.

All SSDs in the test group are functioning and running well, it is quite interesting to see the actual usage flow of ten people at the same time, producing roughly the same performance results over and over again. The Vertex 460A SATA3 480GB SSD certainly isn't slowing down and several members now have written multiple terabytes of data on the SSD. Each month each participant will post their status on the SSD in our forums alongside with an overview of SMART info, TB written, lifespan expectancy and of course performance. This is an open project meaning everything gets reported transparently each month in the forum thread with a screen-shot or two running validation and test software. The good but also the bad will be reported. User feedback based on real-world user experiences. 

We are now at month ten .. this month we I will focus on our Ancient Guru, Darkest. He reached a modest 4 TB of data written (host writes). The SMART readouts are 100%  life expectancy / life time remaining has dropped towards 99%. Below if you click the thumbnails you can see the SMART data of his SSD and performance scores. 

Do these updates make you wanna look into getting an SSD yourself and do you like playing games, do you have your own Twitch channel? OCZ recently launched a new page for gamers covering everything need to know about SSDs and gaming and as part of this page they introduced a new Gaming Streamer Sponsorship Program. So if you’re looking for an SSD sponsor and some swag to go with it, be sure to check out their gaming page and perhaps get a free Vector 180 SSD. 

Below if you click on the thumbnails, these are the results from Darkest 10 months into the group test. That's it for this months update, if you like to follow the test-panel you can do so in this forum thread.