On 10 Sep 2024 20:34 -0400, from e...@gmx.us: > I'm worried about shortening the life of the NVME drive > with all those short writes.
I would call that cargo cult by now. You presumably bought it to use it, so use it. As already pointed out, typical write endurance for modern SSDs is measured in tens to hundreds of terabytes written (usually, for a particular model, it is a function of the drive size: larger ones have a higher write endurance because there's more room to spread writes around), and the firmware is likely sufficiently clever to coalesce small writes in order to reduce write amplification. A write endurance of just 100 TBW and a warranty period / expected service life of five years translates to about _55 GB_ written per day, every day, continuously for those five years. Look up the write endurance specification for your particular model and consider whether you are even close to the daily writes you'd need to be at to hit it. You will definitely want backups of your data anyway for a myriad _other_ reasons, so make sure you make regular backups; and of course any piece of electronics can fail regardless; but write endurance under intended usage of a SSD just isn't an issue in practice any longer. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”
