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How to prevent SSD wearout

https://www.reddit.com/r/Proxmox/comments/soix8n/ssd_wear_out_59_after_six_months/

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If you don't have several servers and don't need high availability, then disable theese services:

systemctl stop corosync pve-ha-crm pve-ha-lrm

systemctl disable corosync pve-ha-crm pve-ha-lrm

Crm and lrm constantly write to disks, and as someone stated above - eat SSDs for breakfast.
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disable HA service if you not use
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Double check that Trim is enabled on the drive.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Proxmox/comments/p2c0qz/proxmox_causing_high_wear_on_ssd/

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Run iotop -ao (should be available via apt). This will show you what processes are responsible for the most writes, then you can make more informed decisions about how to correct it.

https://gist.github.com/hostberg/86bfaa81e50cc0666f1745e1897c0a56

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