Troubleshooting • Re: USB SSD lifespans seem poor

Interesting. Care to explain.

Triggered by this thread and having a couple of 1Tb SSD in use I sort-of panicked. After finding various and contradicting advice out there, some saying certain solutions were no longer appropriate I went for an fstab edit having done a one-off mandraulic trim.

Did not see the solution outlined above hence the question. It also occurs to ask if our good old SD cards are at risk from this one.
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There is more or less nothing left to explain anymore. All has be said already, especially if you also include forum topics up to several years back that relate to RPI4 and USB connected storage. From 2-3 years back or so, my personal conclusion was that:You might have or follow other logic, you can multiply the amount of posts, but maybe do some own examination of your SSDs first. We need numbers and facts.
As you can see from my numbers, you can be in very good shape, even after 'torturing' the SSD for 15 years. That exact 1TB type was once a topic subject in an article on ArsTechnica, predicting lifetime of this model (besides what Samsung specifies). I don't remember exactly, how many years ago, but it seems prediction is true as it seems.

Also note that mine (I only have 1 TB SSD, bigger is HDD) has been tied to an Intel Atom J1900 server board that got 'silent silicon rot' at some day being fatal. Board is dead, even its LEDs give too little info when looking at the troubleshooting section in the user datasheet. The only useful thing left is the coincell for the BIOS/RTC backup, that was at 3V still. And nice heatsink I could rip off.
I discovered the rot because already more than once, files and also blocklevel LVM 'images' had checksum error. Easy to see in dmesg and also when something like this:

Statistics: Posted by redvli — Wed Dec 17, 2025 12:52 pm

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