Don't see too many valid reasons for the regular PC user/gamer to use M.2 SATA and NVMe drives. Now to the SSDs themselves, I'll be talking only about 2.5 inch SATA drives. If, for any reasons you need it, then at least make it smaller than the default 1.5 x RAM size, and move it on a mechanical drive. I had no problems without swap file on Windows 7 for 6 years now. Disable hibernation, files indexing and swap file. Now my two cents, things that I personally (would) do. ![]() Some very good advices here, especially from Cavalary and AB2012. At this point the "oh my god, they will wear out, like, SOOOOO fast!" is only baseless fearmongering left over from the early days of SSDs. ![]() Before long they will also be the better choice for mass storage. And with improved wear leveling, r/w cycles and increasingly larger capacities becoming affordable SSD longevity will only improve further.įor system drive purposes SSDs are already virtually risk free and an all around better choice than HDDs. Any regular HDD could be expected to crap out way before that due to mechanical wear alone. Nevertheless, if I keep my SSD around the same 50%ish capacity as it is now, I can expect another ~51 Years of similar use before it reaches 10% remaining life (CrystalDiskInfo only sets the health status to "Caution" if the remaining life drops to 10% or lower). ![]() due to regularly setting up the entire system from scratch) will also increase wear and lower the life expectancy. Similarly, frequent writing of large amounts of new data (e.g. That's why you should well clear of the maximum capacity of an SSD unless it is a pure storage drive with no writes necessary. However this is not a strictly linear decline as the capacity used obviously affects how soon the SSD will be "unable to write" and redistribute data due to the amount of worn out blocks. ![]() Current status: 95% health according CrystalDiskInfo, which means I have used up 5% its life expectancyĪt this rate the SSD would still be at 75% health after 15 years. Age: a little over 3 years (April 2016) Average workload: more than 2 boot-ups and 6-7 hours of operation a day Used for: OS and regular software like drivers, browser, office software, iTunes, game clients (not the games themselves), etc.
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