Upgrade old laptop with SSD

Brian Cluff brian at snaptek.com
Sat Mar 5 17:15:31 MST 2016


On 02/29/2016 07:28 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> From what I understand, SSDs that are often-written wear out much
> faster if they're more than 80% or 90% full. A good reason to go
> larger rather than smaller.

I was going to mention this as well in my reply but I guess I forgot.

I always buy more than what I need as well.  It's hard for the wear
leveling to spread out writes to unused areas of the drive when the
drive is near full.

Brian Cluff



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