Am I too worried? SSD concern

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motorboatink1ng

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I have a 500gb Samsung 840 series SSD. I have windows 8, and most of my programs on there. I want to download apps from windows, 8. A lot of them are free, and I just want to see them, and most likely uninstall them when I'm done playing around. There is no option to change where the apps save, so they will save on my C drive. I did research and either hear people saying that it doesn't really matter how much you right to a SSD, and then I've herd the complete opposite.

Should I not worry and just install and uninstall what I want or should I really be being cautious with the quantity that I am using it? Sorry for a noob question.
 
You're worrying too much. The read and write limit of an SSD is greater than any of us would ever live to experience.
 
It is true that the individual memory cells on an ssd have a finite number of write cycles but there are reasons why you needn't worry about it. As has already been stated, the number is high and you are not likely to encounter it. Current shipping ssds use something called "wear leveling" which ensures that writes are spread across the entire device to avoid writing to the same cells all the time while other cells never get written to. Early ssds and spinner drives tend to reuse the same locations over and over while other locations remain totally unused. Once a memory cell reaches the point where it can no longer be written to, it simply becomes read only, the data isn't lost and the other cells can still be written to.

If you want a little comforting, run this program SSD Life which attempts to calculate the life expectancy of your ssd based on how intensely you use the drive.
 
I will just say that SSDs *can* fail unexpectedly. My first Crucial M4 died after about a year of use quite unexpectedly (Crucial were very good in sending me a free replacement), so they don't last forever, but no computer component does. Think of SSDs a bit like USB flash drives - they fail all the time.

With that being said, I've used quite a few other SSDs since that first M4 failed and they're all still going strong, including the replacement M4 I got as a result of my first one failing.

You don't need to be worried about what you are worried about, just avoid defragging SSDs. You shouldn't need to degrag an SSD anyway.
 
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