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@Quindor

This means it might only have a WAF of 2 instead of the 4 or 5 that a manufacturer has calculated their TBW value with and thus the NAND is going to “go dead” much less quick then the number would indicate.

Concur; also, pay attention to the real world data testing results:

Does Chia Plotting kill your NVME drives?

Prior art on this: 2015, using 250gb SSDs: TL;DR Samsung’s 840 Series 250GB – survived to 900TB write Samsung’s 840 Pro 256GB – survived to 2400TB write AND THAT 840 NON-PRO IS A CRAPPY LOW END VALUE TLC DRIVE! Look up the manufacturer’s rated write endurance for the drive. That model. It is 72TB. Now look at what it actually delivered. 900TB. And here, an 850 Pro survived to 9100TB writes. I would assume manufacturers have gotten even better at this since Ye Olde 850 and 840 series? …