• Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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    3 months ago

    SSDs have limited write endurance, so moving a lot of large files on and off of them will wear the nand flash out shortening its lifetime and potentially killing it

    This is the conventional wisdom, but honestly I’ve not seen any detectable wear on any of my several year old SSDs even with daily use. I’ve seen more SSDs fail just due to age/power on hours professionally and never wear-related

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      3 months ago

      That’s probably because you are not moving 100s gigabites of daya on a regular basis (i assume)