SSD and the use of Tablebases

[syzygy]

They say that the number of writes on SSD is "limited".
Any idea about that risk?

There is some truth in that, but it does not seem to be a serious problem for normal work loads. After all, mechanical drives have a limited lifetime as well.

When using an SSD to store and access tablebases, the problem of a limited number of writes does not exist, because probing a tablebase does not involve write actions.

Tablebases and SSDs go together very well. (But personally I wouldn't buy a 1.2TB SSD for storing the Nalimov 6-piece tables as I need only 68GB of SSD space to store my own 6-piece WDL tables.)

[FlavusSnow]

Personally, I'd buy more RAM and then mount a filesystem in memory for whatever tables I could get in there. With 16 GB of ram, you should be able to get all of the 5-man tables in there and have plenty of room for a nice sized hash table.

[ernest]

When using an SSD to store and access tablebases, the problem of a limited number of writes does not exist

Of course...
My question related more to the risc of relying exclusively on SSD for all PC operations.

But I guess nobody knows, as of yet... (or?...)