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I mean, it's not really good for any drive to use it. SSD's aren't immune to 'wear and tear'. That said, you should be perfectly fine. A test actually just concluded a couple weeks ago on how much an SSD can take before they crap out; you can read it here: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/03/consumer-ssds-benchmarked-to-death-and-last-far-longer-than-rated/

 

Quote from the article "the drive that survived the longest survived more than 2.4 petabytes worth of sustained writes. That’s probably about 240x as much writing as a typical consumer SSD would need to endure over its lifetime."

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Hello there.

So, my new CPU and MOBO are arriving soon, and as my father has some random SSDs laying around in his work, he'll bring me one. It's Corsair, I don't know the exact model, but it's Corsair 256GB. And here comes a thing. I've heard, that in order for my SSD to work long/good, It has to have some free space. Also, I've heard that I can't delete and create/paste files over there all the time, because it's bad for it. And my question here is... is it really bad for SSD to do these things? I mean, following my logic, it makes no sense. But, well, I decided to ask here, because some people might know something about this. 

Desktop: 

CPU: Ryzen 5 5600x  | Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock 4 | Motherboard: Gigabyte B550 Aorus Pro AC | RAM: 2x8GB Crucial Ballistix 3200MHz | GPU: Asus GTX 1070 ROG Strix | PSU: ADATA Core Reactor 850W | Case: be quiet! Pure Base 500DX | HDD: Samsung HD502HJ 500GB | SSD: XPG M2 SX8200 Pro 512GB | SSD 2: Crucial MX500 500GB | Microphone: Blue Snowball iCE | Headphones: Corsair HS70 Wireless | Soundcard: Maya U5 5.1 | Speakers: Genius SP-HF1800A | Phone: Samsung Galaxy S10

Secondary Desktop:

CPU: Intel i7 4770k @stock | Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo | Motherboard: Asus Z97-PRO (Wi-Fi AC) | RAM: 2x8GB 1600MHz DDR3 | GPU: Asus GTX 1070 ROG Strix | PSU: OCZ ModXStream Pro 700W | Case: SilentiumPC Aquaris X70W | HDD: Samsung HD502HJ 500GB | SSD : Corsair Force LS 240GB

ASUS ZenBook Pro UX550VD:

CPU: i5-7300HQ | RAM: 8GB DDR4, 2400MHz | GPU: GTX 1050 + Intel HD Graphics 630 | Storage: 512GB M.2 SSD 

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use it like a hdd, really nothing to watch out for

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I mean, it's not really good for any drive to use it. SSD's aren't immune to 'wear and tear'. That said, you should be perfectly fine. A test actually just concluded a couple weeks ago on how much an SSD can take before they crap out; you can read it here: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/03/consumer-ssds-benchmarked-to-death-and-last-far-longer-than-rated/

 

Quote from the article "the drive that survived the longest survived more than 2.4 petabytes worth of sustained writes. That’s probably about 240x as much writing as a typical consumer SSD would need to endure over its lifetime."

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use it like a hdd, really nothing to watch out for

 

Other than don't defrag it. Doing so is completely pointless on a SSD since they don't store data the same physical way a mechanical drive does and defragging it just puts wear on it for no reason.

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Install the software that comes with it, disable defragmentation. Unless you're using vista or older you don't have to do much else.

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I mean, it's not really good for any drive to use it. SSD's aren't immune to 'wear and tear'. That said, you should be perfectly fine. A test actually just concluded a couple weeks ago on how much an SSD can take before they crap out; you can read it here: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/03/consumer-ssds-benchmarked-to-death-and-last-far-longer-than-rated/

 

Quote from the article "the drive that survived the longest survived more than 2.4 petabytes worth of sustained writes. That’s probably about 240x as much writing as a typical consumer SSD would need to endure over its lifetime."

SWEET! always wondered this.

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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