Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

[Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de>]

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Am Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 10:05:27AM -0500 schrieb Dale:

> Given how I plan to use this drive, that should last a long time.  I'm
> just putting the OS stuff on the drive and I compile on a spinning rust
> drive and use -k to install the built packages on the live system.  That
> should help minimize the writes.

Well, 300 TB over 5 years is 60 TB per year, or 165 GB per day. Every day. 
I’d say don’t worry. Besides: endurance tests showed that SSDs were able to 
withstand multiples of their guaranteed TBW until they actually failed (of 
course there are always exceptions to the rule).

> I read about that bytes written.  With the way you explained it, it
> confirms what I was thinking it meant.  That's a lot of data.  I
> currently have around 100TBs of drives lurking about, either in my rig
> or for backups.  I'd have to write three times that amount of data on
> that little drive.  That's a LOT of data for a 500GB drive. 

If you use ext4, run `dumpe2fs -h /dev/your-root-partition | grep Lifetime` 
to see how much data has been written to that partition since you formatted 
it. Just to get an idea of what you are looking at on your setup.

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