[Discuss] Reducing wear on SSD drives - worth the effort and, if so, how?

[Rich Pieri]

On Fri, 18 Nov 2022 09:21:50 -0500
Daniel M Gessel <daniel at syntheticblue.com> wrote:

> I've heard that some SSDs wear out pretty quickly, but I'm not sure
> if that's real or just rumor and innuendo.

In between. A flash block has a finite number of writes before it wears
out and stops working. A flash chip is made of many such blocks, and a
SSD is made of a number of such flash chips. Therefore every SSD has a
finite write life.

In practice? It's not something you need to worry about as long as you
run fstrim periodically. Consumer SSDs typically will last longer than
the machines they ship in.

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