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Old Jun 28, 2015 | 8:19 pm
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Originally Posted by Paint Horse
... based on the view that you should not write to SSDs too much.
Realistically, this is a myth.

SSD, especially the lower end "consumer" SSDs do have a finite number of writes, but that number is far, far higher than you'd ever expect to use in normal operation in a home PC.

Last I checked my home PC, the SSD that was around 2.5 years old was running at 96% of it's "endurance" remaining. ie, at my current usage, the drive would last at least 50 year.

If you're concerned about the endurance, the best thing you can do is to NOT run the drive near full. Keeping it below 80% full will help with both performance and lifetime.
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