Nick Holland wrote:
If you really want to arrange the deck chairs on the Titanic, get a drive a lot bigger than you need (say...250G for a firewall), allocate 20GB of that for your FW at the front of the disk. In a year, replace that first 20G partition with a new one, in the next 20G of the disk. In a few years, maybe you need 25G or 30G. But this way, you can never use storage that has been worn for more than a year. Might get ten years of "fresh" disk on a single SSD that way. Do this, I'll laugh at you. 🙂
I would expect wear leveling mechanisms in modern SSD drives to do something similar to what you describe automatically. No need for you to remap the places you write to manually since the device's firmware is supposed to be doing it for you.
Heck, even regular hard drives remap failed blocks.
