Isn’t it only writes that kill drives?

petu 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There's read disturb on SSDs, enough reads will eventually force controller to rewrite the cell and it's neighbours.

Practically if you're not streaming weights 24/7 from a full SSD, then it shouldn't be a problem.

	▲	zozbot234 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Read disturb ought to be quite rare, especially on a fresh drive that was written only once or a handful of times (WORM-like usage). Practically, it's not likely to be an issue even with very heavy read workloads.

sudo_cowsay 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah, that's why most of these comments seem weird to me.

Alpha3031 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes for NAND, and I suppose nobody is using mechanical hard drives for this.