About 4 years ago I bought a 1TB SAMSUNG 840 EVO that cost $300.  Prices have come down.  I see the latest model in 109.99 for a 1TB at newegg.  Mine came with a 5 year warranty.  The latest model comes with a 5 year warranty also.  About a year later I upgraded all my hardware to SSDs.

I do not segregate any partitions or files.  At first I was even leery of running my anti-virus software.  Then I got over it.

I use my SSDs like I would a spinner.

I think SSDs are intelligent and spread the writes out over the entire drive to even the ware.  I think my drive has extra space that can be made visible if a bad area is removed.     

I cannot believe a 500GB SSD is only $59.00.....  Maybe that is holiday pricing.... 

On 2019-12-01 13:05, William Lindley wrote:

Contemplating ordering an SSD as at least the boot and main drive for my PC.

Is that even a good idea?  Are /var, logfiles, and all the other stuff that constantly gets written to disk, still a Really Bad Idea for solid-state memory with its limited write cycle times?

Or is that no longer an issue?

And does anyone really trust SSD to maintain actual documents, family photos, and such over long periods of time?

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