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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