This question was closed on both hardware sites?

Question

I am really confused why.... this happened.

There, the information for the close of the question on hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com was:

Technical support request — Questions asking about troubleshooting hardware or technical support for hardware are off-topic for Hardware Recommendations because the site is here to provide pre-purchase hardware recommendations and to recommend hardware for a specific task, rather than to support existing devices. You may get help on Super User.

And the information given on superuser was:

Questions seeking for hardware shopping recommendations are off-topic because they are often relevant only to the question author at the time the question was asked and tend to become obsolete quickly. Instead of asking what to buy, try asking how to find out what suits your needs.

Help me with this... I am confused about what is happening here...

Answer 1

Well - I might have closed for different reasons (too localised sounds awesome but we don't have it anymore, and to some extent its missed, and I might consider it opinion based).

I guess the core problem is the question is phrased as a "should I choose A or B".

While generally editing the question after the answers are posted is frowned upon - but lets consider your real issue. That you have 2 drives of roughly equal size is irrelevant.

Its possible to look at this question 2 ways, depending on how generic you want to be

What really concerns you is

1. You have a high performance drive in a high wear/usage situation, and you want to know if it would adversely affect its overall lifespan.

That SSDs are not fragile things is fairly well documented on SU - I have an answer or two of my own (that need refreshing! One of my sources is dead)

There's a risk of dupe closure but your current answers are a frame challenge to "will this kill my SSD" - rescope for that, and at worst, include the HDD as an option you are considering as an alternative.

2. Picking the right sort of storage for your application.

In the SU perspective, you could very craftily get away with looking at attributes the drive would need, though since you already have a drive, it wouldn't work

From a Hardware Recs perspective, you could ask a question about picking a new drive with your performance, cost and longevity requirements

3. Monitoring drive health on linux

Since you don't have the same suite samsung provides on linux,

Its also worth remembering drives die for reasons other than cell deterioration, wear related failures are often gradual or graceful, and people have been abusing consumer SSDs for things like this a while.