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Really?? I would consider such laptops not fit for purpose and wouldn't buy one in the first place. Of course, that doesn't help if that's the sort you have. Sorry.
MacBooks are like that.
Regardless, if you're concerned about the logging of beta software prematurely wearing out your SSD, then don't use beta software. It's not ready for release anyway, by definition. It's there so you can help test it for the developers. Logging is an important part of that.
> If not, why not? At least on Apple devices, this is not something anyone has to worry about. For example, on my 2022 Mac Studio daily driver, on 24/7, DriveDx ( https://binaryfruit.com/drivedx ) reports my SSD lifetime left at 94%. (I'm aware of the February 2021 "wear-gate" scare involving the first M1 Macs. This turned to be incorrect SSD-wear reporting.)
On my work laptop though (M3 Pro, 1TB), I’m at ~70% health. Iirc the lifetime writes are at >700TB. I do develop on it, but a lot of it is due to the various endpoint security software that’s always there logging every single possible thing but I can’t do much about it. I expect the ssd to die first in this laptop at this rate, so best I can do is ensure everything always synced/backed up from my local work laptop.
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It helps reduce size and weight since you can just directly place ssd chips on the motherboard instead of planning for connectors. Just depends on what your priorities are.
imagine the 2 grams you'll be losing by skipping the m.2 connector
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If you are not using bottom of a barrel and you are not writing 4K HD 3H mkv every day then you wouldn't have a problem even with a 0.3 DPWD drive of a sufficient capacity .
What does this mean?
Just configure wear leveling in your storage layer. FDE may be the easiest way ti do it. Writes will be done linearly in circular fashion. That makes it difficult to delete stuff, but with encryption it's moot.
at most, you should configure your system and OS to give them a chance. for instance, being 100% full all the time is just bad. use TRIM and log SMART metrics.
> If not, why not? At least on Apple devices, this is not something anyone has to worry about. For example, on my 2022 Mac Studio daily driver, on 24/7, DriveDx ( https://binaryfruit.com/drivedx ) reports my SSD lifetime left at 94%. (I'm aware of the February 2021 "wear-gate" scare involving the first M1 Macs. This turned to be incorrect SSD-wear reporting.)
If you are not using bottom of a barrel and you are not writing 4K HD 3H mkv every day then you wouldn't have a problem even with a 0.3 DPWD drive of a sufficient capacity .
> 0.3 DPWD What does this mean?
From the horse mouth: https://www.kingston.com/en/blog/servers-and-data-centers/un...
0.3 DWPD is for the cheapest ones but even for them you would never exhaust the flash resource in a common home usage.
To give you an idea:
a 120GB drive with 0.3 DWPD "allows" you to rewrite 120 x 0.3 = 40GBytes a day for 3 years straigth, which is 280GB/week or 1200GB/month.
for a 1TB drive it would be 300GB/day, 2100GB/week, 9000GB/month.