Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox

Re:Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox by Retra on Friday September 23, 2016 @07:20PM (#12568614)

>The reality is that even with fairly heavy use, most of them will far outlive the computers they're in.

I'm not sure what the lifetime of a computer is. In my family, we are still occasionally running machines from circa 1995. They work fine. When should I stop using my MacBook? The only reason I'd stop is if it died in a way that can't be cheaply fixed.

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Re:Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox by dTal on Saturday September 24, 2016 @12:47PM (#12571591)

I'm curious what useful work such a computer can perform, given that a typical 1995 computer had a 33 MHz processor, 8 megs of RAM and 1 gigabyte of hard disk space.

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Re:Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox by Retra on Saturday September 24, 2016 @03:06PM (#12572107)

The same work they did in 1995. Word processing, games, internet. Computers weren't useless back then.

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Re:Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox by EpicEng on Friday September 23, 2016 @09:41PM (#12569051)

>I'm not sure what the lifetime of a computer is. In my family, we are still occasionally running machines from circa 1995.

Pretty sure it's not 21 years, c'mon...

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Re:Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox by retro64 on Monday September 26, 2016 @11:06AM (#12582425)

1995 is a stretch for anything modern but I have kids playing Minecraft on Pentium 4’s (with decent graphic cards though - that is the critical part). These boxes would have been new around 2003 or so.

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