Note that there are other non-mining activities that can also put the hurt on an SSD. Distributed computing projects such as BOINC can also get their licks in.

Note that there are other non-mining activities that can also put the hurt on an SSD. Distributed computing projects such as BOINC can also get their licks in. World Community Grid has just put up a GPU application for their COVID-19 BOINC project (at this point, let's call it the equivalent of a 1.0 release), and some users have reported an average of 20 MB/second of continuous writes during the project-wide stress test that's going on. It makes me exceedingly glad that I put my project directory on spinning rust. Others have been using ramdisks to spare their SSDs.