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by BearOso 1954 days ago
This is a whole drive write for every 6 hours of use. Modern TLC is usually only warrantied for about 600 drive writes, though it can usually go higher before failing.

So if you use your laptop for about 5 hours a day, you can expect the SSD to last at least 2 years. For an unswappable part, this is a short time.

They’re really abusing the flash and pushing it to the endurance limit. I personally switched over to all SSD when I discovered that my usage patterns would consume so little lifetime that it was a nonissue. This would make me paranoid again.