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It would be like having an expensive sports car (or guitar) and not taking it out for fear of getting a scratch.
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Unless you're going offroading or lending your guitar to Pete Townshend.
But it's not a concern with Calibre. I have around 50k books in my library and tracked Calibre with Resource Monitor as I opened it and converted several hunrdrd books and it used about 1/3 as much IO Writes as Windows did during the same period. Most of the thrashing Calibre causes on a platter disk is non-sequential read operations which is pretty much what SSD are made for and they don't affect longevity.
And frankly, you aren't likely to find any program that will hurt your SSD that will run on a regular home PC. We've killed consumer SSDs in a few weeks at work by stress testing them on one of our database clusters by having it hit the thing as hard as it could 24/7 until it failed. But that server cluster has a total of 24 processors and over 768GB of RAM and is purpose built to process IO Writes.
Even with the most unruly of programs, a home PC just doesn't have the capability to really stress today's SSDs to the point they will fail anywhere near that quickly. Unless you're using something custom made to beat the hell out of your SSDs or your SSD is very poorly made, it will almost certainly outlive your other hardware no matter what you run on it.