Originally posted by Weasel
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The context was all about whether compiling software is bad because your SSD will die, and that's stupid.
I don't compile Firefox so I'm just guesstimating here, but let's say it takes 30 minutes to compile and writes 2GB of data. Round up to 50 compiles per day, and that'd be 100GB per day. That's ~350TB over 10 years, which is within the warranty of most SSD drives from what i can see (other than the fact that they only tend to be for 5 years max).
So if those numbers are accurate, you really could compile Firefox nonstop for 10 years and still not kill your SSD drive.
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