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Originally Posted by
tesco
They are two seperate things to worry about (or not).
The first is the degraded speed from filling the drive. This problem doesn't exist anymore since TRIM takes care of it. Just make sure you buy a drive that supports TRIM and use win7 or another modern OS and forget about it.
The second is the degrading life of the SSD. Each block can take something like 10,000 writes before it can't hold a charge anymore. A modern ssd controller keeps track of how many writes it has made to each block, and tries to strategically wear the device. A good SSD has extra space beyond what is advertised (for example a 90gb drive could actually have 130gb). This is so that blocks that cannot hold a charge can be marked as 'bad' by the ssd's controller and still be able to keep the advertised size. Some SSDs (more expensive ones) have more of this buffer space than others.
For average use you don't even need to worry about this, it will be obsolete long before it even gets close to the end of its life.
Oh, and also there's that magic thing.
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