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They are great... just make sure you don't fill them completely full
so they have space to spread out writes for wear leveling.<br>
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The only ssd's that I have seen die are the ones that are fill all
the way to the brim so that you system ends up writing over and over
to the same places till the drive is dead.<br>
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That being said, I believe that modern SSDs will even move old data
around withing itself to make sure that even writing to the same
place within the drive doesn't happen for extended periods of time.<br>
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They are safe and if you haven't experienced using a computer that
is running an SSD before be prepared for the huge speed increase you
system is about to have.... and then when you can move to an NVMe
SSD drive, be prepared for the speed increase again, as they make
traditional SSD's seem slow in comparison.<br>
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Once you go SSD you can never go back... It would feel like trading
your high speed internet for dialup.<br>
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Brian Cluff<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/1/19 1:05 PM, William Lindley
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<p>Contemplating ordering an SSD as at least the boot and main
drive for my PC.</p>
<p>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?</p>
<p>Or is that no longer an issue?</p>
<p>And does anyone really trust SSD to maintain actual documents,
family photos, and such over long periods of time?</p>
<p>\\/<br>
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