I do monitor my SSD livetime.
Comparing with other “Power users” that do not use Qubes i got around 100% more load on my SSD than them (under normal circumstances, without experimenting.)
I would love to get some stats from you!
You can obtain them with
sudo smartctl --all /dev/nvme0
in dom0.
I do some research on distributed networks and i am running experiments quite frequently in the last time. One run costs me 30Gb of writes and i have done this a lot. Keep that in mind. However i have burned through 33% of the lifetime of my SSD in 5 months.
This SSD is 5 months old:
Supported Power States
St Op Max Active Idle RL RT WL WT Ent_Lat Ex_Lat
0 + 8.49W - - 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 + 4.48W - - 1 1 1 1 0 200
2 + 3.18W - - 2 2 2 2 0 1000
3 - 0.0400W - - 3 3 3 3 2000 1200
4 - 0.0050W - - 4 4 4 4 500 9500
Supported LBA Sizes (NSID 0x1)
Id Fmt Data Metadt Rel_Perf
0 + 512 0 0
=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 50 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 10%
Percentage Used: 3%
Data Units Read: 42,913,978 [21.9 TB]
Data Units Written: 33,825,813 [17.3 TB]
Host Read Commands: 774,910,618
Host Write Commands: 520,990,562
Controller Busy Time: 2,377
Power Cycles: 179
Power On Hours: 1,409
Unsafe Shutdowns: 63
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 0
Warning Comp. Temperature Time: 0
Critical Comp. Temperature Time: 0
Temperature Sensor 1: 50 Celsius
Temperature Sensor 2: 54 Celsius
Error Information (NVMe Log 0x01, 16 of 64 entries)
No Errors Logged
I am curios on how much you burn your SSD with Qubes. From my experience, it is 100% more than “normal Power user” usage.