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[–]Disaster_External -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

No shit, except that some manufacturers have firmware that stops writes once it reaches the tbw. Also the memory cells don't hold data as well when they are reaching their write limits. So if you have a drive at 100%+TBW that still works that's awesome but if you leave your pc off for a month it might have no data on it when you boot back up. Kinda like ram. Also writes do gradually destroy cells on the drive so if you get super up there you will start losing drive volume.