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by PunchyHamster 68 days ago
Nah, we used some consumer SSD for write heavy but not all that precious data, and time to live was basically directly dependant on the space left free on device.

Of course, doesn't matter for desktop use as the spare on drive is enough, but still, if you have 24/7 write heavy loads, making sure it's all trimmed will noticably extend lifetime

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Yes, this is the reason why 0.3 DWPD drive is 10 orders smaller than 3 DWPD. I know the horror stories of using Samsung EVO for the SQL loads, especially < 512GB.

But yes, without the actual use-case it's just speculations.

NB QVO drives I mentioned a year ago in the comments are still running, but I do make sure they are never used more than 80%