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> What do you do that wears them out so fast? I forgot to mention I do a lot of heavy writes to it. It is common to see me creating a huge 20GB virtual machine
by blindm 6y ago
> What do you do that wears them out so fast?
I forgot to mention I do a lot of heavy writes to it. It is common to see me creating a huge 20GB virtual machine disk image, using it for a few hours, then deleting it, before creating a new one in its place. I'm a huge virtualization freak.
- ahupp 6y agoIn a lot of these systems (at least VMWare back when I used that, and Docker) you can clone an existing image with copy-on-write. This is a lot faster and would avoid 20GB of writes to spin up a new VM.
- pixl97 6y agoEh, still that is not that much data. I've had much longer life out of SSDs that are used as cache drives and perform a huge amount of writes per day, with Intel and Samsung drives that is. If you're losing drives that fast check your thermal management instead. Don't run your drives hot.