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Originally Posted by Waxing_Gibbous
'Bin waiting for these since January. Now the $$$ is coming down I'm ready to upgrade. No more silly click-whirrr and 3 times as fast. Bliss!
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From my most recent reading on the subject:
SSDs have a finite life expectancy because each chunk of memory can only be written so many times. The firmware levels out the wear to maximise the life. You are probably best off having enough memory that you don't need a swap file. That gets written to continually.
Make sure you are getting a 2nd generation or later SSD with TRIM support.
Never try to defrag them. The firmware does enough by itself.
Never let them fill up completely. The firmware needs free space because it moves each block of data every time it rewrites it.