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Ask HN: Why don't SSDs have built-in protections against excessive writes?

• water8 5y ago
  Who's to say a workload is excessive?
  • amichail 5y ago
    You should at least get a warning.
    • PaulHoule 5y ago
      I dunno, maybe scammers will tell you that your ssd will burn up if you don’t pay them $200.
• 0x456 5y ago
  There's S.M.A.R.T. and a lot of freeware that can read it and tell you how much has been written to the disk. If only it were built into operating systems, with a graph, then you could set up warnings, like you can for overheating CPUs, etc.
• navjack27 5y ago
  I've had this one SSD since at least 2013 and it ain't dead yet. It's been duct taped in laptops and formatted and overwritten multiple times with different operating systems. it's been used as an external USB drive with a little connector. For a laugh I've actually forced a defragment on it using mydefrag a couple times. If any SSD should have died due to excessive writes it should have been this one.
  • chefkoch 5y ago
    In those 8 years you propably wrote less to the SSD as If it was a cache device for a write intensive server in a day ;)
• yellow_lead 5y ago
  Alternative thread: How to disable built in write protections on my SSD? I'm a programmer and I know what I'm doing...