Hi all,
Stupid question, the s.m.a.r.t. on nvme/ssd drives logs everything. I have a 4TB nvme drive, used 1TB of it. What will happen if i format this drive partly to EXT4 and move all the games from the NTFS part to the new formatted EXT4 part ? will it log writings on the disk ? Or will it handle it the same way as like moving the files from one folder to another one ?
It will log, yes. This will not be treated the same way as moving files.
Moving files usually does not require much physical writing to disk - instead only the location markers for that data is moved.
But moving from NTFS to ext4 will require all that data to be physically written to the disk. With games - that can be a lot of writing of new data.
That being said, unless you are intent on making the nVME drive last for as long as possible, there are certain actions that cannot be avoided. Knowing that SD has a read/write limit sometimes only means knowing your limitations, not refusing to use the drive in fear of its eventual failure. Planning ahead to replace the drive and backing up regularly are best practices, no matter what type of drive is being used.
Thanks for this, i am not afraid just wondered how it would be handled. I have 8TB and using it for 1 year now, 1 drive has 1.8TB written and the gaming drive only 1.9 TB. The 1.8 TB written drive is the windows os only (yeah updates updates and updates). If i had linux installed on this drive would not even pass the 1.8TB 
