As with most ratings, the Total Bytes Written is usually a variable quantified by the term 'Your mileage may vary'. Almost like asking which is the best SSD. Depends on the application, server or home pc, 5 hours a day, or 24 hours a day, things like that. You'd have to be more specific.
Isn't a TBW rating hard data (instead of Mean Time Between Failures which is dependent on how intesive you use it)? it's the amount of data (in terabytes) that is guaranteed (by the manufacturer) which can be written to ssd's. I've already busted 2 ssd's and their TBW was 30TB or so, i go through that in about 2 months (ocz vertex 460 (TBW:20GB/day for 3 years) which was a rma replacement for my vertex 3 (TBW:30GB/day for 3 years)
I suppose it would depend on the manufacturer. Things change so fast, it's difficult to keep abreast of all the ratings from each and every manufacturer. I do not have the time to invest in that sort of investigative work, not having the same requirements of someone who is in the professional field.
Samsung is now the leading mainstream ssd manufacturer with it's 850 pro ssd series, it has 10 year warranty and a TBW of 150 (TB's). For msata I only see the 850 evo's which have 2 year warranty and a TBW of 75.
I was wondering if msata had better TBW ratings in comparison to SSD drives, nothing more, nothing less
Not needed anymore with the latest version. Just launch it normally, if you edit something where is impossible to save w/o the admin permissions n++ just ask to switch to admin mode. Really great. Everything should work this way since the vista day one.
Ah, well then, I'm far from the best person to ask that question of. This is my first mSATA, and it's a bargain basement one at that... This is, for me, more or less a test. If it fails next week, I still have my Intel SDD I can put back in the HAF XB EVO. Only takes a couple of minutes. On the other hand, if it proves to be reliable over the next couple of years, then I'll have made out like a bandit.
It's based on read write IOPS, and it has been the 830,840 850, there hasn't been any better performer for desktop, a enterprise drive is different in rating.
The Sata 3 interface is a joke now, the 850 is garbage compared to pci-e and always has been from day one. But in it's Sata 3 class it is tops in benchmarks, in the real world of OS performance, there's 10 MFG's in the same class.
Fankly is more a juke wating the time in benchmarks abouth the transfer speed when no one is able to differentiate the cheapest sata1 SSD from the supertop PCI in raid 0, w/o looking at benchmaks. What's counts in the real world is the latency. Unless you are doing something of veeery heavy, like managing 30GB image or 3d files.