Tech Report ran an 18-month-long stress test where they wrote as much data to SSDs as possible to see when they failed. RELATED: It's Time: Why You Need to Upgrade to an SSD Right Nowīut worries about SSD wear are overblown.
Guides assert that you should try to avoid unnecessary wear on the SSD by minimizing the amount of writes. That’s because each cell of flash memory on the drive only has a limited number of writes before it can’t be written to anymore. Much of the advice on “optimizing” Windows for an SSD involves reducing the amount of writes to the SSD. There are a lot of guides out there about optimizing your SSD, but we don’t recommend following most of them. Some of the advice is outdated, and some of it was never necessary. SSDs Aren’t as Small or Fragile as They Used to Be
