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What about something like LVM cache? Would it be worth setting up an X% empty partition on the drive, just for empty space reasons?
Could work. I don't know how your specific SSD handles partitions. Some SSDs don't care about partitions on the physical level at all. In that case using a partition or unpartitioned space to reserve space to stay empty would work.
Some SSDs might actually physically reserve space for a partition, in that case leaving something unpartitioned or as an empty partition wouldn't help.
I think most SSDs should ignore the partitions on the physical level, so it should work, but no guarantees.