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ectoplasmosis in reply to @hippy

What do you use the laptop for?

High write endurance only matters if you’re constantly dumping massive files onto the drive, over and over, all day. Or running a high transaction rate database on it, writing millions of tiny blocks every second.

Just get a Samsung 980 Pro or WD SN850, it’ll be fine.

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hippy in reply to @ectoplasmosis

I'm not. But I don't like wasting half a day or more trying to sort out dead machines so I was looking for durable over fast.

I'm half tempted to just replicate my main drive to a cloud provider or something and then sync with the laptop so the computers are quicker to replace when something dies. Personal DR planning...

I mean, I did get 8 years or so out of my PC's boot drive, that was a Samsung 950 PRO M.2 512GB NVMe SSD

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ectoplasmosis in reply to @hippy

8 years is a good innings for a 950 Pro; they run hot & hungry, and wear quickly. Your passive CPU cooler won’t have helped keep it cool nestled under there either.

Like I say, just get a modern, high-end consumer SSD like the ones I mentioned above and don’t sweat it.

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