The reason I asked was not because I didn't know this, but because an article said "under normal use, SSDs will last longer than the computer themselves." I don't know if constantly saving, writing, and compiling lilypond files with temporary files saved in Frescobaldi would be considered "beyond normal use." I appreciate your explanation of this.
I'm not trying to baby my computer; I'm only trying to be considerate of any limitations there might be for an SSD currently. -- Josh On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 3:40 AM, Andrew Bernard <andrew.bern...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Joshua, > > Myths about SSD's arise from early days. You have a new computer with > presumably a current SSD. Such SSD's can sustain petabyte (that's petabyte) > writes before they fail. If you write a terabyte of Frescobaldi data to the > disk in a year, which is utterly unreasonable, you can expect to get 1000 > years use out of it. The electronics in your computer will fail sometime in > that period. :-) There are admittedly other factors relating to hard drive > failure, but mechanical drives suffer the same factors. > > I wish people would relax about this topic or read the extensive > literature on contemporary drive testing, > > Here's a five paragraph summary article on this type of testing: > > http://www.zdnet.com/article/worried-about-ssd-wear-you- > probably-dont-need-to-be/ > > There also exist many very learned papers on the same topic, showing very > high endurance figures for consumer SSD's. > > Andrew > >
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