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Originally Posted by kacir
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Obviously I do not worry about the health of my [bloody expensive] large SSD that much(*), when I did not notice when Calibre ceased to change the author case during import.
(*) not as much as at the beginning, anyway ;-)
I do keep an eye on usage
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I've switched to SSDs (120GB - 1TB) for all OS drives on my desktops and laptops. The oldest still in use, an Intel X25-M G2 120GB (iirc, 5000 P/E cycles so good for around at least 600TB NAND writes) is still at 100% health after almost 7 years of usage. The sole SSD I have that's below 90% health is a 128GB Crucial m4 that's also used as TV buffer in the HTPC (~100+GB writes per day).
Kovid's right. Browser cache does far more damage than Calibre ever will (and despite that, I definitely still want cache, tmp, pagefile, etc on SSD instead of HDD). Besides, wear leveling techniques are pretty advanced anyhow. The worst case write amplification I've seen thus far with my usage (which is probably worse than average) is around 3x.