I have a question:
Background:
A few years ago while I was not fulltime playing eve like a monkey I had Eve installed on an oldschool HDD. After one very frustrating situation where a bunch of Redeemers dropped on me, and my HDD bottlenecked the game (probably loading Redeemer textures) to 1FPS and I couldn’t click the warp button when my ECM burst distabled the Arazu I bought a new M.2 drive just for installing eve. so this wouldn’t happen again.
The killmail sets the date for my new purchase at 2022-09-13
Since then, I only installed Eve and Eve Vanguard on that dedicatedd M.2 Harddrive
Today the drive died.
I’m familiar with the lifetime expectations for a M.2 drive. It’s limited by write/read cycles and high temperature might affect it negatively, also keeping it at 100% capacity or something like that isn’t great.
So after < 3 years while being 50% empty the drive broke now.
I just wonder if the SharedCache or something coming from the Eve Launcher could negatively impact the lifetime of SSDs be creating large writes and such…
A weekly update of 500mb or whatever probably will not cause this, also my screenshot directory and stuff like that is not on that drive. So it was only running EveOnline and now it’s dead a bit sooner than it should maybe have died.
Maybe I’m just unlucky, but please check this 
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Cheap QLC M.2 SSD? Then that might be the cause…
You’d need to at least specify the make and model of ssd. I’ve had a few of em die and mostly very young, but I generally do thrash them just in the normal course of my usage.
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It’s a Patriot P300:
Here are the specs:
It only had Eve (full download) installed and Vanguard. I’m not sure if I uninstalled Vanguard but it was always at like 50% capacity only.
Fun Fact: Warranty is listed with 3 years… so it failed before it should have failed.
Also it was located in a colder area of the mainboard.
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The key here is
Drive Writes Per Day (DWPD): 0.3
This basically says "every day you can write (0.3 * drive capacity ( 128 GB ) ) 40 GByte to it and it should last at least the warranty period of 3 years.
That it did not last the three years, it is only natural to ask as to why.
Defective drive or overzelous ShareCache ( or other EVE code ) burning through writes?
I would be first to finger point at the launcher. I’ve documentated on the forum that it often, but not always wants to download 160 MBytes of patch, but even 10 times this amount would be more than tolerable for the drive specs above to still be operating for the full 3 years.
Seems a more reasonable explanation ( in lieu of other data ) you might just have gotten a bad SSD.
At least it wasn’t the M.2 sodderd onto a mac…