SSDs versus spinning-rust drives

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About 4 years ago I bought a 1TB SAMSUNG 840 EVO that cost $300.  Prices
have come down.  I see the latest model in 109.99 for a 1TB at newegg. 
Mine came with a 5 year warranty.  The latest model comes with a 5 year
warranty also.  About a year later I upgraded all my hardware to SSDs. 

I do not segregate any partitions or files.  At first I was even leery
of running my anti-virus software.  Then I got over it. 

I use my SSDs like I would a spinner. 

I think SSDs are intelligent and spread the writes out over the entire
drive to even the ware.  I think my drive has extra space that can be
made visible if a bad area is removed.      

I cannot believe a 500GB SSD is only $59.00.....  Maybe that is holiday
pricing....  

On 2019-12-01 13:05, William Lindley wrote:

> Contemplating ordering an SSD as at least the boot and main drive for my PC. 
> 
> Is that even a good idea?  Are /var, logfiles, and all the other stuff that constantly gets written to disk, still a Really Bad Idea for solid-state memory with its limited write cycle times? 
> 
> Or is that no longer an issue? 
> 
> And does anyone really trust SSD to maintain actual documents, family photos, and such over long periods of time? 
> 
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