I started using recently an app (Obsidian) for note-taking/personal wiki. Turns out the app is having a quite peculiar way of persisting the information - it literally causes a write after every typed character or the sync frequency is so high that it seems like it is doing it after every type character - whichever is the case, the result is the same. This is a problem for 2 reasons - firstly having your notes on a cloud storage (locally hosted or public) triggers constant syncs which causes on itself issues. Secondly if you have your notes locally, I was thinking what would that do on a modern SSD? If someone has knowledge at low OS level and Hardware, would be interested to hear any thoughts. To give an example, if I write a note each day with 10,000 characters and this triggers 10,000 writes on the SSD, is that something that would be an issue ?
P.S.Apologies if not in the right category, I thought this was the most suitable place.
as far as I am aware, SSD longevity regarding data writes are measured in the amount of data written e.g. TBW; Terabytes Written
so, the frequency of writing is not such a big deal, as opposed to the overall size of the data written
keep in mind that your operating system and other apps are likely to be already writing things continuously to the disk in the background which you might not be aware of, which could eclipse the number of writes incurred by your app