On 11.09.2024 05:34, e...@gmx.us wrote:
It probably would. I'm worried about shortening the life of the NVME
drive
with all those short writes. Do SSDs fail by going read-only, or do they
just vanish and take your data with them?
Yes, usually they do just vanish and take your data with them, however
it would take several decades
to wear-off TLC (3-bit) 3D NAND chips on SSD through normal daily usage
of it as a system drive.
By normal daily usage I mean swap partition, system updates, working
with documents, occasional spins of VMs, etc.
In my experience, it is far more likely the controller IC would fail,
leaving data on NAND ICs intact, but
the data recovery from SSDs is very expensive, if possible at all,
because some of the drives
use encryption and compression algorithms internally, making data to
look like a byte-salad if examined directly on a chip.
There is more to it, and knowing all this, I always assume that all data
on my SSDs will be lost and
perform regular automated backups.
So, when SSD will fail, I'll simply replace it and restore data from my
backups.
In mean time, I enjoy fast performance of SSD drives and keep an eye on
them using "smartd".
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