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The lifespan of Solid State Drives

We are in the process of buying new Desktops for our company network. When we buy equipment we historically keep it for somewhere between 7 and 9 years.  Most of the suppliers we have asked are quoting  for machines with Solid State Drives.  When I looked at this a few years ago Solid State Drives  had a lifespan of about 4 years. For this reason I was going to stick with Hard Disk Drives.  The machines in question will be used in an office environment with standard work loads of Word , Excel, email. The files are stored  on a network so the local disks tend to be below half capacity at the end of the 9 year period.

Does anyone know what the likely lifespan of a solid state drive might be nowadays?
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This will depend on each manufacturer's specs for their devices.

https://www.wepc.com/tips/ssd-reliability/ provides a good per device type discussion + still best to refer to specs for specific SSD devices you'll be using.
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Here's a link to a good writeup on the lifespan of SSDs.
https://www.ontrack.com/blog/2018/02/07/how-long-do-ssds-really-last/

It echos most of what Dr. Klahn states.
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Samsung has a Pro line with warranty period of 10 years and a long MTBF. They cost more but if you need the extra lifespan that will help.
imo, lifespan comes only into play when dayly, extensive usage is requiered.
for "normal" office use, it will never reach EOL
My own PC has an SSD for the boot drive and, according to SSDLife (free), will last just over eight years.  It is now over two years old and is a Sandisk which is not generally considered to be a primo drive.
As a note, the added performance boost of an SSD outweighs it's (sometimes) shorter life.
You should also disable the Defrag task unless you do a virgin installation on an SSD.  Defragmenting an SSD will seriously hurt its lifespan.
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Thanks to everyone who contributed. Helps make the decision easier.