The SMART stats of the drive says it's at 88% health out of 100%, AKA it'll be dead when it reaches 0%. This is the wear and tear on the drive after ~6 years of full time usage on my primary all around dev / video creating / gaming workstation. It's been powered on 112 times for a grand total of 53,152 running hours and I've written 31TB total to it. 53,152 hours is 2,214 days or a little over 6 years. I keep my workstation on all the time short of power outages that drain my UPS or if I leave my place for days.
Here's a screenshot of all of the SMART stats: https://twitter.com/nickjanetakis/status/1357127351772012544
I go out of my way to save large files (videos) and other media (games, etc.) on a HDD but generally most apps are installed on the SSD and I don't really think about the writes.
Also the disk that it's on is over 50% full so that also degrades it faster as there's fewer blocks to wear level with.
You can see this from the warranty for example, which for the Samsung 970 EVO[1] goes linearly from 150TBW for the 250GB model up to 1200TBW for the 2000GB model.
So if you take the 1000GB model with its 600TBW warranty, you can write 50BG of data per day for over 32 years before you're exhausted the drive write warranty.
[1]: https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/product/c... (under "MORE SPECS")
Generally you're looking at hundreds of terabytes, if not more than a petabyte in total write capacity before the drive is unusable.
This is for older drives (~6 years old as I said), and I don't know enough about storage technology and where it's come since then to say, but I imagine things probably have not gotten worse.
[0]: https://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experi...
I am afraid they did, consumer SSDs moved from MLC (2 bits per cell) to TLC (3) or QLC (4). Durability changed from multiple petabytes to low hundreds of terabytes. Still a lot, but I suspect the test would be a lot shorter now.
