On 12/28/2015 12:31 PM, Daniel Micay wrote:
Anyway, wear isn't an issue on anything but low quality hardware. Even the consumer class drives like Samsung's EVO line are going to take 5+ years to burn through the P/E cycles with extremely heavy usage. You can keep track via the SMART data. Samsung drives have an entry with the number of P/E cycles so far and the percentage of remaining life and other vendors probably have a similar field (but perhaps not with the same transparency).
It's worth noting that most hard drive life estimates are very conservative. https://techreport.com/review/24841/introducing-the-ssd-endurance-experiment All of the drives in the test lasted far beyond the manufacturer's expected lifetime, and a 2 drives on to take over two *petabytes* of writes before dying. -- Anthony Mapes