New MacBook Pro in the house!

[sekker]

jdc wrote:
[quote=sekker]
I wonder whether such SSD use were to be chronic would cause wear issues down the road. RAM is designed to be dynamic; SSDs definitely have a lifetime ceiling.

Perhaps, but we are talking years and years and years?
For a college or grad student, we are talking 4+ years. Not unreasonable to be thinking of such a timeline.

[jdc]

I was thinking closer to 10, -- even for someone who hit the virtual disk hard enough to make it swap 8 hours a day. Woudl have to start getting super technical about a drives TBM, intended use, etc

Since college kids (even grad students) arent really pushing the adobe creative suite or making 4 K videos all day... the odd of using swap are minimal...

And not sure what it really means after the 10 years? drive dies? or just gets slower? or?

[mikebw]

jdc wrote:
And not sure what it really means after the 10 years? drive dies? or just gets slower? or?

I've had an SSD that got notably slower which prompted a run in DriveDx that then showed many errors. They eventually may just stop working.

[jdc]

Eventually *everything* just stops working =)

Not saying its not possible, and not sure what your SSD is, but comparing a 500 MB/s 2.5" SSD to a 7000 MB/s NVMe drive is apples and oranges.