Excelent, thanks Now my next immediate task will be to install Arch on Ssd and begin using it... On Thu, 23 May 2019, 9:47 am David C. Rankin, < drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
On 05/22/2019 10:12 PM, Ram Kumar via arch-general wrote:
Nice, Thanks a lot guys. My first job for tomorrow will be to install Arch on my laptop.
can you explain me a little detail on that rewrite stuff?, i am slightly confused
Sure, here is a good article that explains it:
How Long do SSDs Really Last? https://www.ontrack.com/blog/2018/02/07/how-long-do-ssds-really-last/
You can find many more similar articles, and if you find the old (pre-2015) ones, you will see the fear they had on exceeding the cell write limits. SSD's have improved significantly, and the cell re-write issue has gone away for the most part.
As mentioned in the article to hit the lifetime of a 250GB drive in one year, you would need to re-write 190GB per-day, every day, for the entire year.
In normal desktop/laptop use, you rarely write more than 1-2GB a day on average -- so that would translate into a 190-95 year wear-life for the drive under normal use. Even at 10GB a day, that would be a 19 year life for the drive.
So based on those figures, you would install Arch with your choice of desktop, use it for the day, delete everything and repeat the install/delete every day for 10 years and still be fine.
-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.