On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 2:49 PM, <timothyhobbs@seznam.cz> wrote:
import Control.Monad
foo = do
 forever $ writeFile "filename.foo" "Hello world!"

will that destroy those sectors of my SSD after the rated 3000 write cycles?

Check your OS; while the firmware of modern SSD devices does much of the work of rotating blocks of Flash around to mitigate this, the OS can help by using a TRIM operation.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM

I personally would consider that rapidly changing files should be kept somewhere else such as tmpfs with periodic snapshots to nonvolatile storage.

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