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The nvme monitoring tag on WindowsForum.com collects discussion of how NVMe solid-state storage behaves under real workloads, including write amplification, endurance, and background activity that can quietly consume drive life. A recent thread examines Proxmox VE 8.3 and persistent writes on boot SSDs, weighing claims that idle hosts wear out drives quickly against measured figures such as roughly 0.5 TB written per year from the cluster filesystem alone. For Windows admins and homelab operators migrating from Hyper-V or VMware, the practical theme is treating NVMe boot volumes as actively used system disks and watching write patterns rather than assuming idle means harmless.
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    Proxmox VE 8.3 Reduces Boot SSD Write Amplification

    Proxmox VE does generate persistent background writes on its boot volume, but the available evidence does not support the claim that a typical idle host is “probably” wearing out its SSD at an alarming rate. XDA Developers correctly identifies several sources of small writes, particularly the...