Ask HN: Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas?
I am looking for a website that tracks excessive SSD writes caused by OS or app betas. I want users to be able to decide whether to install beta software based on the SSD wear they are willing to accept. Additionally, I believe making this data public would encourage developers to be more careful about excessive logging in their betas.
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 reports my SSD lifetime left at 94%.
Then you probably want something that has replaceable parts and not an apple product (e.g. framework)?
Also, I could see why developers would want excessive logging in their betas, so that's kind of a catch-22 (without the verbose logs it might be harder to fix bugs found in the beta)
Really?? I would consider such laptops not fit for purpose and wouldn't buy one in the first place.
- CharlesW
> 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.)
- embedding-shape
I feel like the only responsible thing is to have a home network with at least one persistent device running 24/7 with large storage for local backups of things, and ideally a E2E cloud backup of the same thing. With this, comes the possibility of using things like Grafana+Prometheus to monitor your personal computer/workstation as well. This is what I've done, together with alerts from various things, and since the recent "excessive writes by codex" issue, also alerts if there is obsessive writing over hours long period from any process on my workstation. Luckily I wasn't hit by the Codex issue myself, but certainly made me consider the issue more generally so, happy accidents :)
- tosti
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.