Where does the information about the rapid deterioration of the SSD come from?

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linux

There are still seemingly experienced people who talk about the rapid death of SSD from swap. I have had two SSDs on my laptop for three years now. The first is 480 GB from OCZ, the second is 512 GB from Intel. On one Linux Debian, on the second Linux Xubuntu, and both there and there is a swap. I use disks actively through torrents and graphics rendering in Blender3D. Tests show an excellent condition of disks. Even the so-called decrease in volume by "bad cells" was not noticed. I saw here on the toaster asked the question "Does Firefox spoil the SSD?")))). Hmm)))). Damage from swap is a myth?

Answer 1

Damage from swap is a myth?

Let's do it. Damage from swap is a myth. Corruption from frequent overwrites is not a myth. Cells degrade, SSDs degrade... over time. For a home laptop, this time may well be longer than the average human laptop life.
If you don't have enough RAM, swap to ssd is quite a normal solution. But only this will mean that it will be used much more intensively than in systems with a large amount of memory.
In a word, no matter how sophisticated you are, you should do backups of important data in any case, and then, in general, don’t care.

Answer 2

SSDs are very different. We have a batch of 10 pieces of ADATA 460 flew out after two weeks of use as a cache. So they lie now, I'm even afraid to put them in a laptop, although there were also unpacked ones.

Answer 3

It is a myth.
Everyone was scared by the wear of the cells and people are afraid.
In fact, you can do anything on your home computer and not be afraid of disk wear.
In general, an SSD is worth buying in order to place intensively used data on it that will be actively read and written - swap, caches, user profiles, system, programs, actively used files ..
And store something that is rarely used on the HDD.
A disc can break at any time - but this does not depend on wear. All equipment is broken.
If the data is valuable, you need a backup.

Answer 4

Tales from the past, which are repeated by narrow-minded people.
For old SSDs, the stories about overwriting were true, but this was true for the very first SSDs.
SSD of the last 4 years is more reliable than hard ones. Since January 1, 2013, I have been using an SSD as the main system disk, and the swap also lives on it. During this time, I buried two hard drives (one WD and one Toshiba), and the SSD still lives and does not cough.

Answer 5

from the past.

Answer 6

Information from owners of web servers on SSD and testers. After 700 terabytes of recording, problems may begin, and possibly the end of the drive.
techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-exp...