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Subject: [Discuss] Reducing wear on SSD drives - worth the effort and, if so, how?
From: dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 14:34:16 -0500
In-reply-to: <3177ef1d-008b-1e06-f922-c0b16e6810bf@null.net>
References: <3cdb535c-a04a-fb96-7038-d0c0204af969@syntheticblue.com> <20221118095354.63aa281e.Richard.Pieri@gmail.com> <3177ef1d-008b-1e06-f922-c0b16e6810bf@null.net>

epp at null.net wrote: 
> The SSD I am using, Western Digital WD Blue SA510 SATA, came with a 5-year
> warranty and the MTTF (Mean Time To Failure) shows 'up to 1.75 million
> hours'.


The 1TB version has an expected endurance of 400TB. 

https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library/en_us/assets/public/western-digital/product/internal-drives/wd-blue-ssd/product-brief-wd-blue-sa510-sata-ssd.pdf

1.75 million hours is 200 years. It's clearly not a useful
measurement of reliability.

-dsr-

References:
- [Discuss] Reducing wear on SSD drives - worth the effort and, if so, how?
  - From: daniel at syntheticblue.com (Daniel M Gessel)
- [Discuss] Reducing wear on SSD drives - worth the effort and, if so, how?
  - From: richard.pieri at gmail.com (Rich Pieri)
- [Discuss] Reducing wear on SSD drives - worth the effort and, if so, how?
  - From: epp at null.net (epp at null.net)

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