Reading/ Writing

[Muppetlol]

Is antivirus and any type of scanning of files considered reading or writing for the ssd? ( E.g scanning for virus / malwarebytes scan)

[Theo]

I think it's just reading since its not really writing anything

[Muppetlol]

So if every day I scan like 100GB worth of files, it just reads the 100GB off the SSD and doesn't write at all? Cuz i know that writing too much to a SSD will cause it to die faster

[WoodenMarker]

So if every day I scan like 100GB worth of files, it just reads the 100GB off the SSD and doesn't write at all? Cuz i know that writing too much to a SSD will cause it to die faster

Reading is fine. Do it all day.

[Hyydrah]

It is mostly reading, but it does write to the drive when it records virus scan logs, etc.

[Samdb]

It mainly reads. But as @Dave Zember mentioned it writes the scan logs.

[Scia]

To actually kill your SSD as a normal user [not using it as a scratch disk or whatever] it'll take for ever. No worries about that.

[mgsstar]

Well I have on access scanning and it doesn't do alot of reads on it by looking at the total bytes written in Samsung Magician. Personally I do not do a full system scan unless something is wrong in my system.

[LegendKillerRG]

To actually kill your SSD as a normal user [not using it as a scratch disk or whatever] it'll take for ever. No worries about that.

There's limited writes on SSD...

[WoodenMarker]

To actually kill your SSD as a normal user [not using it as a scratch disk or whatever] it'll take for ever. No worries about that.

You could defrag to kill it pretty quickly.