iPad Air Do factory resets wear out the storage chips on Apple devices?

[wry]

I had read somewhere that continuously rewriting data on an SSD will wear out the number of write cycles it has and cause it to fail. I reset my new iPad Air so I could restore it from an iCloud backup and get access to my Google Authenticator, but I couldn't, so I reset it again and set it back up as new. Cleared out around 50GB of storage and I feel like that might have taken a toll on the device.

 

[Apple_Robert]

What you did doesn’t even come close to wearing out the SSD drive.

 

[rui no onna]

I had read somewhere that continuously rewriting data on an SSD will wear out the number of write cycles it has and cause it to fail. I reset my new iPad Air so I could restore it from an iCloud backup and get access to my Google Authenticator, but I couldn't, so I reset it again and set it back up as new. Cleared out around 50GB of storage and I feel like that might have taken a toll on the device.

The NAND flash chips on iPads probably have something like 3,000 P/E cycles minimum.

That translates to the following NAND write limits:

• 64GB: 192 TBW
• 128GB: 384 TBW
• 256GB: 768 TBW
• 512GB: 1.5 PBW
• 1TB: 3 PBW
• 2TB: 6 PBW

Personally, I wouldn’t even worry about 50GB written daily. Come to think of it, I believe that’s actually how much my desktop regularly writes to the SSD per day.