On 27 Jan 2024, Nightfox said the following...
Ni> We> SSDs are great for OS drives but any use scenario with heavy I/O
Ni> We> operations will eventually hit the write/rewrite limit on SSD cells.
Ni> We> my work environment OS drives are SSDs and storage drives are spinnin
Ni> We> drives.
Ni>
Ni> Doesn't an OS write to its drive quite a lot? I thought modern OSes
Ni> typically write quite a bit in log files, swap files (if necessary),
Ni> etc.. I would have thought an OS drive would get more I/O usage than a
Ni> drive used for storage.

both the OS and the device are aware of disk wear nowadays. last i checked my drive's SMART data, it was fairly low to the point of being uninteresting.. having had the drives for quite a long time.

most VPS come with SSD storage nowadays and people abuse the heck out of those without causing problems :)

this might not apply to the cheapest unreputable stuff though.

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