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Shared libraries

Posted Nov 26, 2025 7:33 UTC (Wed) by mb (subscriber, #50428)
In reply to: Shared libraries by Heretic_Blacksheep
Parent article: APT Rust requirement raises questions

>10-15 GB installation every couple of weeks
>rated for 300 TB write/erase cycles

That's over 400 years of steady updates.

I've yet to see my first SSD failure due to the "small" lifetimes that one can read about everywhere all the time.

I use them since about 15 years ago as system disk and as disks that are continuously being written to since 8 years ago. Not a single failure so far, except for one that was bad out of the box.

I don't say that failures can't happen, but so far SSDs are much *more* reliable than spinning rust for me.

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Posted Dec 4, 2025 17:00 UTC (Thu) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]

Only actually ~500 full drive writes, but I've been impressed by Sandforce. Shame they went out of business. I've never seen an HDD last nearly this long.

ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  5 Retired_Block_Count     0x0033   093   093   003    Pre-fail  Always       -       608
  9 Power_On_Hours_and_Msec 0x0032   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       132110h+35m+45.600s
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       175
174 Unexpect_Power_Loss_Ct  0x0030   000   000   000    Old_age   Offline      -       81
231 SSD_Life_Left           0x0013   089   089   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       1
241 Lifetime_Writes_GiB     0x0032   000   000   000    Old_age   Always       -       32128
242 Lifetime_Reads_GiB      0x0032   000   000   000    Old_age   Always       -       79296