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

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

On 11/18/22 06:21, Daniel M Gessel wrote:
> Anyone have thoughts on whether it's worth trying to reduce wear on 
> the drive?

I have a Dell XPS-13 a couple models old and the stock SSD in it reports 
as a "Micron 2200S NVMe 512GB", which I think is a decent part, but I am 
nervous about SSDs so I did one little thing: I put /tmp and /var/tmp in 
RAM disks, figuring that would move some background activity off the SSD.

I have not played with fstrim. I am running XFS on top of LVM on top of 
dm-crypt. I wonder whether things are configured to even know how to 
trim through that. I'll have to look.

-kb


P.S. I would like to upgrade to a bigger SSD but from experience I have 
become shy about dismantling notebooks. Torque the little screws on the 
bottom a little too much and things get destroyed, a little too little 
and things don't hold together. Notebooks are not just electronic 
devices, they are mechanical devices that (if used in a portable mode) 
are subjected to significant physical stress and have moving parts?