On 2020-04-05, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > If copying 100GB causes too much heat watching smartctl will show you > before it gets too hot and you can stop it.
If your SSD really can't handle large data transfers without damage, I'd get a different one. Copying a few hundred GB in one go golly well better be a use case considered by the designer/manufacturer. If not, they're utterly incompetent and you shouldn't buy their products. However, if do want to control the rate at which files are copied, rsync has a --bwlimit option. But, the description of that option specifically says it's for controlling bandwidth usage on "the socket", so perhaps it's ineffective for local copies. -- Grant
