On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 10:35 AM Wols Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote: > > On 23/12/2021 17:26, Rich Freeman wrote: > > Plus it is an SSD that you're forcing a lot of writes > > through, so that is going to increase your risk of failure at some > > point. > > A lot of people can't get away from the fact that early SSDs weren't > that good. And I won't touch micro-SD for that reason. But all the > reports now are that a decent SSD is likely to outlast spinning rust. > > Cheers, > Wol >
I'll respond to Rich's points in a bit but on this point I think you're both right - new SSDs are very very reliable and I'm not overly worried, but it seems a given that forcing more and more writes to an SSD has to up the probability of a failure at some point. Zero writes is almost no chance of failure, trillions of writes eventually wears something out. Mark
