[tjoff]

I've always wondered what these theoretical numbers, which has been quoted since long before consumers could ever afford an SSD, should tell you... They should not, in any way, make you trust your SSD. They are beyond useless. Also, this article assumes no write amplification and assumes perfect wear level algorithms. He/She even throws in usb-thumb drives in the mix, so, how do you know if your thumb drive has a perfect (TM) wear level algorithm? What about that flash card? Would you recommend storing swap and log files on that too? Sigh.

Compared to this article the advice of not ever storing swap/log files on a flash drive would be sound advice.

But yes, you are probably not going to hit the limits of your consumer drive SSD. But whether you are going to or not you will not, under any circumstances, be able to find out by making some numbers up. If anyone knows it is the manufacturer, and you can bet you won't get access to that data.

[twotwotwo]

You can use smartctl or equivalent to see the media wear indicator.

But SSD firmware bugs have been a larger problem in practice than wearout, and MWI won't help you with them; keep backups.