Pascal Hambourg <pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote: > Joel Roth a écrit :
>> I have debian installed on a single SSD partition, >> with ordinary desktop use. >> >> When I set the strictatime option, mutt accurately shows new >> mails arriving. (I'm using mbox format.) >> Is this setting going to wear out my SSD? > Yes, faster that relatime because of the extra writes. Right. Now the SSD will only last 19 years instead of 20. As long as you don't use any of the first consumer SSDs available you are not going to destroy the SSD with normal use. And even if you try and force to break a recent SSD, it will take you nearly 2 years of constant writes to do so. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.