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

[Dan Ritter]

epp at null.net wrote: 
> The SSD I am using, Western Digital WD Blue SA510 SATA, came with a 5-year
> warranty and the MTTF (Mean Time To Failure) shows 'up to 1.75 million
> hours'.


The 1TB version has an expected endurance of 400TB. 

https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library/en_us/assets/public/western-digital/product/internal-drives/wd-blue-ssd/product-brief-wd-blue-sa510-sata-ssd.pdf

1.75 million hours is 200 years. It's clearly not a useful
measurement of reliability.

-dsr-