You cannot wear out an SSD through AI inference alone. LLM weights are only read from the SSD, and read operations do not contribute to SSD wear. SSD wear is primarily caused by write and erase operations.

> Have you been trashing the non-replaceabe SSD with constant AI workloads?

Your other point is valid, but you're either vastly underestimating how many reads/writes a modern SSD can take or vastly overestimating how much output a typical LLM is capable of.

On the other hand you have the old saying "science advances one funeral at a time", indicating death solves at least as many problems as it causes.

(the point being that old, powerful professors have more than once blocked progress in their fields for decades. And only a funeral, eventually, solves the problem ...)