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Originally Posted by NullNix
Definitely not. Modern flash, even the cheap stuff in Kindles and the ultra-cheap stuff in USB sticks, is quite capable of coping with a really rather significant number of writes without problems. Unless you're filling up the entire Kindle every few days, just ignore it.
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I've actually managed to kill USB flash drives running portable Firefox, Google Chrome and LibreOffice. Well, not quite kill but rather rendered certain sectors unusable (likely bad/uneven wear leveling).
TLC NAND, you're looking at 500-1000 P/E cycles so that's (not factoring write amplification):
8GB: 4-8TB NAND writes
32GB: 16-32TB NAND writes
In any case, no need to baby it but running regular defrag is a no-no. I remember trying defrag on a relatively full SSD once and it made two drive writes worth.