On January 13, 2016 7:56:59 AM EST, Spencer Cheng <spencer [ at ] aotera [ dot ] org> wrote: > >> On Jan 13, 2016, at 7:39, Rick Leir <rleir [ at ] leirtech [ dot ] com> wrote: >> >>> you likely won't wear out your SSD >> I have been told not to worry about wearing out the SSD. > >SSDs do fail. I had one fail on me while on the road with no warning Hi Spencer Yes, I heard that you get no warning, no smartd error counts or whatever. Suddenly there is no response from your disk? >but wearing one out is not easy nor likely given that most SSDs are >replaced or moved to backup computers within 3 years. WAF is slowly >getting lower which reduces wear also. > >Regards, >Spencer -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.