TechnoTalk: Time to Tech

[benji]

I thought they lost their ability to perform more writes and if nothing else would become read only, still recoverable?

I mean the idea being that they're better for storage than actively running an OS from, especially something like Windows that doesn't even try to minimize its writes

Windows has had the TRIM function for some time, it should be completely fine to run off an SSD. Most every "defrag" thing (or at least the good ones) should be doing this instead so the SSD won't even try to use any written too much sectors.

Even the indexing for search shouldn't be a problem, for one thing unlike on a regular drive it's not having to move anything to do it. I have way too many regular drives with some mechanical issue it's developed but no SSD has ever maxed out.

Personally, I've been using the same Windows 10 install off this 256GB SSD for six years. (Which means it will now fail since I mentioned it.)