Subj : there will come a time when you aren't ashamed if you are fat
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Tue Feb 17 2026 09:30 am

Hej Wilfred!

> Why are you unnecessarily wearing down your SSD cells with such a
> command?

I don't that often.  At the moment I wanted a comparable command to the 
slackware-current write to the usb pendrives without actually writing 
slackware-current to the disk.  I am and have been aware of wear levelling.  I 
have yet to have any SSD fail on me.  I have one (sata) that has been in use 
for 20 years now and shows no sign of giving up.  I also have older ones that 
lack a proper interface since their host machines have long outlived their 
usefullness.  40 and 44 pin ide jobbers.  If I remember correctly they had 
"flash-ttyinux of the 21st century" embbeded on them.  That would make them  
~25 years old now.  Also have many bootable compact flash disks that go back to 
the late 1990's.  I have no idea if they would still boot.  Last time I checked 
they did.

> No, awful! ;-)

Works for me.  :-)

Anyhow I am all done testing ... for now.  Just about to reboot the europoint 
on a secondary nvme.  That was the disk in question that dd showed the 5 GB/s 
transfer speed and it is still awesome despite dd zeroing what is now the root 
partition.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

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