– Is it realistic for the SSD in, say, an Xbox Series S to run out of writes/wear out if the user keeps downloading games?

Question

And is it possible to somehow quantify in an approximate way how many gigabytes the user would have to download before the SSD would wear itself out?

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Answer 1

It’s not filling it up that wears out an SSD, it’s the number of writes to any one sector. They are only good for 20K-30K writes. Most SSDs have wear leveling software that makes it hard to reach this lifetime in normal operation. If you download stuff until it’s full, then delete everything, then fill it up again, then delete again, …; then after 30K cycles you might see errors. So don’t do that.