Burning in a hybrid disk-drive?

[BurtonBenson]

I use disk-drives for image and video backup and I always burn them in for a few days to weed out the early failures before I put them into service.
I use sets of three disks for redundancy (i.e. the same data on three drives).
The first drive also acts as a "working disk" so I generally get a higher performance disk for that slot.

I've just purchased a hybrid disk (Segate ST1000DX001) and I'm wondering if there is any good way to burn it in without adding tons of writes to the SSD?

Cheers,

[David (PassMark)]

Impossible to know. It depends on the algorithms used in the drive, which aren't generally made public.
Newer SSDs aren't nearly as bad as the early ones. Most of them have lifetimes of 5 to 10 years in normal use. So a burn in at the start might only shave off a week or two off the 10 years.