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Originally Posted by mrmikel
It depends on how ambitious you are just how long your SSD will last. If you have a smaller collection of a few hundred works, there is no reason your drive shouldn't last a good long time. If you are a conversion maniac who has to convert the entire contents of gutenberg.org or sources in pdf, you could even find it die in months. This is one case where your mileage will definitely vary depending on how you use it.
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And you have a source for this claim about how "it could die in months"? I'm sorry but without it I find such FUD only adds to people's paranoia.
It is a drive. Like any drive it could fail at *any* time - whether it is SSD or a hard-drive. I have had an SSD as my boot drive (with a churn of apps on it not to mention all the things like windows page files) installed for over three years now and it hasn't skipped a beat. Yes that is where my temp directory lives, and yes that is where many, many thousands of calibre conversions have been done along with the myriad of other apps I use.
Sure SSDs will on average have a more limited life - but so does *any* component no matter the technology. Just make sure you have backups and just get on with using it and enjoy the performance gains.