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barium · 07-14-2012, 06:23 PM

Will using Calibre extensively on an SSD cause the drive to fail much sooner than it would otherwise fail?

My current mechanical drive goes nuts when installing Calibre, converting books, downloading recipes, reading books, clicking on items in the library (i.e., loading book details) and even starting up. Also, storing the library on the drive slows down Windows searches of the drive (because it has many books).

I'm hoping running Calibre from an SSD will improve performance of all of the above tasks. But I don't want to run it on an SSD if doing so will decrease the life of the drive.

EDIT: Please see DedTV's post below. Running Calibre on an SSD probably isn't something to worry about.

07-14-2012, 06:23 PM	#1
barium Connoisseur Posts: 96 Karma: 20572 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: None	Running Calibre on an SSD Will using Calibre extensively on an SSD cause the drive to fail much sooner than it would otherwise fail? My current mechanical drive goes nuts when installing Calibre, converting books, downloading recipes, reading books, clicking on items in the library (i.e., loading book details) and even starting up. Also, storing the library on the drive slows down Windows searches of the drive (because it has many books). I'm hoping running Calibre from an SSD will improve performance of all of the above tasks. But I don't want to run it on an SSD if doing so will decrease the life of the drive. EDIT: Please see DedTV's post below. Running Calibre on an SSD probably isn't something to worry about. Last edited by barium; 07-15-2012 at 07:28 PM.