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Writting 20GB or more to an SSD
Hey guys I have a question in regards to my SSD which is a Samsung 850 EVO series 500GB.
So at the end of march ( I think the 28th or 29th) i wrote about 20.43GB of data to my SSD this includes updates for windows 10 (1803) and the game that I play. Today, I wrote about 24.04GB this includes the same thing as I've mentioned earlier. Obviously I don't write more than 20GB every day but these are the dates of when I exceeded more than 20GB. Now there were probably other times where I have exceeded 20GB or more but it is hard to remember because it was so long ago.
I don't know if you guys who have SSD's write more than 20GB or 24GB a day which brings me to my question and that is if I write 20GB or more every like two weeks or a month, will that shorten the life of my SSD and is this something I should worry about all the time even if 20 GB or more are being written every 2 weeks or even a month.
Or should I worry about it more when I write more than 20GB every day? The reason why I'm asking this question is because i was doing research about my SSD and it said "Lifespan with 20GiB of Host writes per day with 1.5x write amplification" including 2,000 NAND P/E cycles and 1,000TiB will make my 500 GB SSD last for 93.5 years (not sure if this is accurate but it's what google says).
Lastly this question doesn't relate to SSD writes, but once you install your SSD into your computer and update the drivers for it, is the TRIM function turned on by default? because I don't have the samsung magician installed, thus I don't know nor have I played around with the settings on the magician software.
Your help is greatly appreciated, Thanks in advance!