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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. >
