Originally Posted By: mlord
That's at least 150MBytes of churn, more likely 500MBytes with mysql inefficiencies, once a minute, continuously for about 35 days. 7.5TB - 25TB. On top of "normal" system activity.

Thinking about this a little more, I suppose those numbers get doubled again due to the filesystem journalling.. and that's all before the write-amplification factor of the SSD itself.