Comment on Ask HN: Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas?parentComments−justsomehnguy1moDrive Write Per Day (typo in my previous comment)From the horse mouth: https://www.kingston.com/en/blog/servers-and-data-centers/un...0.3 DWPD is for the cheapest ones but even for them you would never exhaust the flash resource in a common home usage.To give you an idea:a 120GB drive with 0.3 DWPD "allows" you to rewrite 120 x 0.3 = 40GBytes a day for 3 years straigth, which is 280GB/week or 1200GB/month.for a 1TB drive it would be 300GB/day, 2100GB/week, 9000GB/month.
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Drive Write Per Day (typo in my previous comment)
From the horse mouth: https://www.kingston.com/en/blog/servers-and-data-centers/un...
0.3 DWPD is for the cheapest ones but even for them you would never exhaust the flash resource in a common home usage.
To give you an idea:
a 120GB drive with 0.3 DWPD "allows" you to rewrite 120 x 0.3 = 40GBytes a day for 3 years straigth, which is 280GB/week or 1200GB/month.
for a 1TB drive it would be 300GB/day, 2100GB/week, 9000GB/month.