[Rinzler89]

>I long didn't use Everything out of SSD wear concerns

How grounded in reality are your SSD wear concerns? I feel like most people are overly paranoid and have unfounded FUD about that.

I use my SSD like a loaner (constantly installing new games and downloading new linux ISOs to try out in VMs) and after 2 years of heavy use it had IIRC ~98% life remaining in SMART statistics. I bought another second hand corporate laptop used for 4 years and the SSD SMART reports a remaining life of 97%.

So unless you want to leave your SSD as inheritance to your grandkids, I don't see the point of hypermiling your SSD to increase longevity. It's a wearable part, it's gonna die eventually no matter how much you baby it, so I might as well use it to the max to get my money's worth, otherwise what's the point? It's not like it's gonna increase in value over time the less you use it like Pokémon cards.

[tracker1]

I would be more concerned with a small SSD with limited available storage... But I've generally just treated SSD/NVME like yourself and not really worried about it.

I did experience a bug in the first gen Intel SSD that one day it showed up as an 8mb drive, didn't know of the fix for it until well later, and it was so small (64gb) that I just swapped it for a larger/cheaper drive by that time.

I also experienced some issues with another drive I replaced a few months ago, that turned out to be an issue with RAM. Again, swapped the 2tb drive for 4tb as I wanted more storage as well.

Other than these, I haven't worn out a drive yet. I have decade old SSDs from an old home server from 12 years ago currently running in RPi boxes via usb-sata adapters.