Re:In defense of swap: common misconceptions (2018)
by jmillikin on Thursday April 21, 2022 @02:23AM
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Running a light workload on a consumer SSD is fine. That's what they're designed for. Your ~48 TiB of writes over a decade is well within its design parameters.
If you used it as swap in a server, you could expect something closer to its max write rate, which is on the order of 10-20 TiB per day[1]. Run that for a year and you're at 3+ PiB total writes.
[1] Contemporary reviews say the OCZ Vertex LE had a maximum write throughput of 250 MB/s. Times 3600 (per hour), times 24, converted to IEC notation is 20,116 GiB per day.
If you used it as swap in a server, you could expect something closer to its max write rate, which is on the order of 10-20 TiB per day[1]. Run that for a year and you're at 3+ PiB total writes.
[1] Contemporary reviews say the OCZ Vertex LE had a maximum write throughput of 250 MB/s. Times 3600 (per hour), times 24, converted to IEC notation is 20,116 GiB per day.