[arch-general] ssd trim using fstrim.service and fstrim.timer

[Anthony Mapes]

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

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