Subj : Re: To shuck or not to shuck.
To   : Nightfox
From : fusion
Date : Sun Jan 28 2024 01:20 am

On 27 Jan 2024, Nightfox said the following...
 
 Ni>  We> SSDs are great for OS drives but any use scenario with heavy I/O
 Ni>  We> operations will eventually hit the write/rewrite limit on SSD cells. 
 Ni>  We> my work environment OS drives are SSDs and storage drives are spinnin
 Ni>  We> drives.
 Ni> 
 Ni> Doesn't an OS write to its drive quite a lot?  I thought modern OSes
 Ni> typically write quite a bit in log files, swap files (if necessary),
 Ni> etc..  I would have thought an OS drive would get more I/O usage than a
 Ni> drive used for storage.

both the OS and the device are aware of disk wear nowadays. last i checked my drive's SMART data, it was fairly low to the point of being uninteresting.. having had the drives for quite a long time.

most VPS come with SSD storage nowadays and people abuse the heck out of those without causing problems :)

this might not apply to the cheapest unreputable stuff though.

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