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> Which will shorten the lifespan of the SSD Technically true, but not enough for you to notice. Modern SSDs have drive write lifetimes in the high hundreds o
by paranoidrobot 2y ago
> Which will shorten the lifespan of the SSD
Technically true, but not enough for you to notice.
Modern SSDs have drive write lifetimes in the high hundreds of TB of writes.
If you had 128GB of memory in your laptop, writing that down to disk isn't going to consume much of that write lifetime.
- immibis 2y agoOn the contrary, you're telling me that shutting the laptop lid three times a day for a year will wear out the SSD by 20% of its lifespan.
- calineczka 2y agoWhat you say and the math does not agree. Do it 10x and in your scenario already 1TB is consumed of those "hundreds of TB of writes".
- paranoidrobot 2y agoMost laptops don't have 128GB RAM, they're probably 16GB or 32GB. Samsung warranties their 990 Pro SSD at 600TBW for 1TB, 1200TBW on 2TB, and 2400TBW on 4TB. So, lets assume you've got a laptop with 32GB RAM and a 1TB SSD. If you hibernate it 3x per day. After 10 years you'll have used 350TB of your writes. (32GB * 3) * 365.25d * 10y = 350.64TB