SSD writing limit, how to determine current SATA writing value?

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Hello,

 

i read that SSD is better than SATA, except writing and so far higher price for capacity, mainly its limitted by writting.. so i want to ask how i can see current writing value of my SATA HDD to see if SSD drive in its place wont die too quickly?

 

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SSD Write operations: 0.01 - 5 million per cell

source: Why SSDs? - Why are Solid State Drives much better and faster then normal Hard Disk Drives - SSD Reviews, Data Sheets and Comparison - ssdreview.com

 

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It seems my computer does roughly 1 gigabytes worth of writing in two hours. By doing a quick calculation a 128G SSD with 3000 write cycles would last 90 years... Nothing to worry about.

source: linux - How to get total number of bytes/sectors/blocks written to disk since booting? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

 

"iotop" command shows average writing rate 5Mb/s

 

cat /sys/block/sda/stat

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38397740 6719117 1218198474 2541208934 563384909 2231904020 22363585502 2447550014 3 2538083181 698990101

thx

 

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