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

[Rich Pieri]

On Fri, 18 Nov 2022 12:27:49 -0500
Dan Ritter <dsr at randomstring.org> wrote:

> If you are running a server, or if you have a significant budget
> restraint, or if backups are hard, paying the extra money for a
> longer-design-lifetime drive might be a good idea.

Even then it's dependent on the work loads. A media server serving up
mostly static content won't need high write life flash storage. In
fact, servers like this often are better/cheaper with some kind of
tiered storage with mid-grade flash on top of spinning drives.

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