Learning to live with the lameness of SSDs

My new workstation arrived with a high-falutin NVMe solid state disk installed. It is presently the system drive and is just like the one installed in Mama's Intel NUC.

My machine's manufacturer, in their infinite wisdom, fail to realize that SSDs are for people who don't do anything ... given their finite NAND writes even in the presence of overprovisioning.

While I admit this particular SSD is more efficient in it's ability to maintain operational stability ... it remains better suited for Mom who does everything she likes and more while I would tear it up with my workload in less than a year.

I am a user who does a whole lot in the way of heavy graphics and markup, code, versioning, experimentation, and those pursuits which have killed several SSD predecessors prematurely when I mistakenly installed SSDs in the servers on my network ...

Suffice it to say that when it comes to my workstation, a fast server grade magnetic SATA is more my speed given the re-writeability in general and toward that end I have been migrating both applications and their associated profiles with other aspects of application immediate storage to the 4 tb WD Gold I slapped into the case of my new workstation when I received it.

I cannot get past the tremendous server failures I experienced secondary to SSD utilization. I'm not selling this new NVMe ssd boot drive short by any means I just cannot allow my assets to depend on it as I did with other SSDs in the past.

Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.

I don't intend to allow my enterprise to again be damaged by inadequate provisioning.

If the SSD fails I have a strong magenetic HDD up and running already and can simply apply an operating system install should the need arise.

We do what we must do.