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

[gaf.linux at gmail.com (Jerry Feldman)]

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.

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On Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 9:23 AM Daniel M Gessel <daniel at syntheticblue.com>
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
>
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