Comment by _DeadFred_
5 days ago
Any point in setting my laptop to minimal power usage by default and drives to aggressively sleep, in order to try to extend life? Or is sleep and extra power cycle and better to not sleep my M2 drives so they aren't being powered up/down?
The main thing that shortens the lifetime of solid state drives is sustained writes over time. You should disable all system logging options and all "spotlight databases for fast search", avoid swap use and not let the drives "sleep" too aggressively since this will force the system to persist some volume of writes from RAM to disk that might have turned out to be unnecessary down the road.