Kingston V300 60GB SSD - before warranty ends

Seeing my SSD's life estimation go down to 91%, I checked the actual date when I purchased it and I was surprised to see that it's almost out of warranty, being almost 3 years old (on July 19th).

Yes, I bought this 60GB SSD for 180RON (~45 USD, including VAT) 3 years ago. At first I abused it with downloads and frequent Windows/UBUNTU reinstalls, generating 10TB of writes in the first few months. After that I became wiser and upgraded to Windows 10, which is much better than the old 8.1 I was having frequents troubles with. I also installed a second drive, a 2.5" 320GB laptop hard drive, for downloads and games, taking the strain off the SSD. These two steps resulted in cutting the wear in half, generating another 10TB writes in the past 2-2.5 years.

As you can see I reached 20.5TB of writes, but only 12.5TB of reads. I've explained this before, it's because of the nature of digital storage and computers in general. Long story short, all files need to be written to the drive 100%, while reading almost always happens only partially, as apps and games may have file you never use ... or you abort a download ... skip scenes in downloaded movies ...etc.

These figures may not be representative of average SSD use, as I'm not an average user, but it does point out a flaw in traditional FLASH-based storage, which have a limited number of write cycles and unlimited read cycles ... exactly the opposite of what I need... I have another 11.5TB of writes left, after which the SSD may become unresponsive. In theory the drive's electronics will allow me to copy everything from it when the time comes, but I'm still making backups regularly, as you can never predict 100% accurately how/when hardware failures will happen.