On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 01:09:14 -0700, Mike wrote:

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It's not as much math as theory. There are too many marketing
variables between who's selling exactly what -...- how many units of
1000 gigabytes [1T] is for a SSD thus and to be rated: at X-number of
terabytes, over XBrandSSD's 30-days, to a 5-year warranty return on
Samsung or Crucial. Western Digital won't even provide it, for one,
unless it's an exclusively priced Enterprise (corporate sales) level
drive. Good is Samsung. Good is you're dividing into levels of 1000
units [1G=1unit] per terabytes for a "rough idea", say if you plan to
wear out a SSD, on your webserver, being constantly bombarded by
otherwise inane amounts of traffic streaming, in so much a number
happened to be known.

SSDs are highly guarded about proprietary aspects, a controller in
interacting with its memory, and what makes "theirs" better than
anything else available for the hot, hot money you're impatiently
waiting to hand out to the industry. Other than the swap file -- and,
in your case, some constant daily usage of memory swap file for
hibernation purposes -- unless a nature of temporary files is notable
for a greater bulk and constant usage, (to then define that platters),
then I don't worry about small-fry on the SSD. For someone on a
laptop and one SSD that's obviously not my case nor theirs;- they'll
likely apply to that tradeshow observance: that cheaper SSDs in widely
affordable laptops have an industry allowance, in general, for a
year's usage on a 'dems dats breaks' mean.

You don't need to know what's going on behind the curtain. As I said,
since it's a guarded and proprietary industry methodology as well to
control how memory is controlled by an individual brand SSD, over
another brand SSD, then all you can do is follow the pack for a
theoretical level of how users are interpreting fundamental
similarities, between them, for a general optimal in favoring *all*
SSD usage from some set patternistic generalities (TRIM usage,
overprovisioning, defraying needless write redundancy when a platter
driver is provisionally available).