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

[daniel at syntheticblue.com (Daniel M Gessel)]

Apologies, I wasn't trying to put words into your mouth, I was trying to 
understand. My bad!

On 2022-12-01 12:20, Rich Pieri wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Dec 2022 10:55:22 -0500
> Daniel M Gessel <daniel at syntheticblue.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
> No, I don't "rather" budget for replacement. I *always* plan for
> replacement. All storage, whether flash or rotating, will wear out and
> fail and need to be replaced.
>
> Once you start treating storage as consumable you stop worrying about
> micro-managing wear and let the storage manage itself the way it was
> designed.
>