Does it affect a SSD's lifespan when a laptop is suspended?

Hello Friends

For a laptop having a SSD either 2.5’’ or M.2 PCIe.

The storage component has a lifespan.

Of course, when the laptop is running at demand with its own OS (any Linux distribution) and all the respective apps opened by the user

Does it happen even if the laptop is suspended? I mean if the laptop’s lid is closed. I know “nothing” is running, but I am not sure if the lifespan is actually running or not. I hope you see my point

Thank You

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If the SSD is powered off, its lifetime is not decreasing , as far as I know

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An SSD can undergo a finite (but very large) number of WRITE cycles. According to my searches, reading the drive, suspending it, or powering it completely off does not affect the drive’s life expectancy.

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An SSD is just subject to fail at any time, just like ordinary HDD. They just do it in different rate and way :wink:
As for lifetime, I have an old Kingston V300 SSD which should have failed long ago, still works, I just don’t use it because of its small size.
Another SSD died for me at life left 98% from one second to another.
(Even the capacity and manufacturer could not be detected, it reported itself as satafirm-something).
So my expereince tells me, an SSD can fail at any time (let’s have backup!!!), whenever it fails, it will be most probably because of the failure of the controller inside, and much less probably because wear of the NAND cells.

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