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

Different definitions of "tradeoff" aside, I think I'm hearing you say 
that you'd rather budget for replacement than make risky changes to your 
systems for potentially little to no benefit. That's cool if that's your 
thing.

On 2022-12-01 08:15, Rich Pieri wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Dec 2022 01:59:02 -0500
> Daniel M Gessel <daniel at syntheticblue.com> wrote:
>
>> There's definitely a tradeoff.
> Not really. Storage, be it solid state or rotating rust, is a
> consumable commodity. Once you frame your SSDs as consumables the
> perceived problems with flash wear vanish into simple budgeting for
> periodic replacement.
>