Just anecdotal, but I upgraded my desktop computer in 2015 with a new mb, cpu and NVMe M2 SSD. Have not had a failure. I'm seeing a lot of figures from 5 years to over 20. The quality of the SSD.
-- Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org PGP key id: 6F6BB6E7 PGP Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1 3050 5715 B88D 6F6 B B6E7 On Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 9:23 AM Daniel M Gessel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > The discussion about filesystems got me thinking about whether or not > it's worth trying to reduce SSD wear on my first system (laptop) to have > one. It occurred to me that file cloning seems like it could save a few > writes... > > I've heard that some SSDs wear out pretty quickly, but I'm not sure if > that's real or just rumor and innuendo. > > Anyone have thoughts on whether it's worth trying to reduce wear on the > drive? If so, what kind of changes could I make to my system? > > I've installed Ubuntu, which I've been happy with as I'm not much of a > sysadmin; I know it's resource heavy but I seem to be fine with 16gigs > of ram. > > It's dual boot, but I haven't used windows except when I first got it to > test; I'll wipe windows if I ever run low on space. > > > Thanks, > > Dan > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
