I'm really not sure I can get behind this reasoning. You buy an SSD because you want the performance, but are reluctant to use it for fear or reducing it's life?
It will last a good long time sitting in it's box on a shelf, but how does that help you?
I can understand not wanting to submit it to needless cycles for stuff that DOESN'T improve performance (needless background indexing tasks or something) but otherwise, why buy it if you're not going to get it's full benefit of speeding up the stuff you do?
It would be like having an expensive sports car (or guitar) and not taking it out for fear of getting a scratch.
Use the thing! By the time you wear it out, a replacement will be 10 times the capacity and one tenth the price, anyway!
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Originally Posted by unboggling
What's the problem with read/write to SSD? SSD is flash technology. Is frequent r/w bad for flash? First I've heard of it.
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Yes, certain use patterns can wear out flash memory cells unusually fast (compared to the same use patterns on magnetic hard drives) but actual life span is somewhat of an unknown, as SSDs have not been in service as long as HDDs. We're still talking years of use, though. It might end up being 5 years for an SSD vs 10-15 for an HDD or something like that.
Google "
ssd lifespan."