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I did run Crystal Disc Info on my HDD and it just said GOOD... it is only the SSD which has the % shown, but I suppose it could be 99.99% but reports 99% as there is no decimal point..
If they reply to my email I will let you know :)
Agree with this a million percent. And in all honesty, you'll probably wind up replacing the drive with something newer or bigger before the read/write wear concerns become a reality. I still use my 120gig OCZ drive I bought in 2010; though I now use it as an external flash drive
BTW all my drives since than have been Samsung (both SATA and NVME) as well as Pro and EVO as seen in my system specs
The normal for me is to use this laptop for about 3 to 3.5 hours each evening and maybe a more over the weekend..
Tonight it shows I have written 10GB since 6PM until now, so with a little more from Friday to Sunday it looks to be well below 100GB each week which sounds better to me :)
Unless you're writing gigabytes of data 24/7/365 that "might" be an issue, but the use you put forth is a non worry. And BTW I use both my desktop and laptop far more than that and I'm not even concerned about wear level
Yes, you can find some horror stories on the net, just as I can find support for the flat earth theory
Relax and use your PC
The SSD will likely become obsolete before it wears out due to writes.
Tree huge windows files are updated on every start.
pagefile.sys (Virtual memory)
hiberfil.sys (hibernation file)
swapfile.sys (Virtual memory)
On every boot you will have re written almost twice the size of your memory.
I've have moved pagefile.sys from the C: drive (SSD) to D: (HDD) and disabled hibernation (powercfg -h off). Now only the swapfile.sys remain (260MB) on the SSD.
That is not true. And the pagefile.sys should be on the fastest drive in the computer, ideally the same drive and partition as the OS, not on the slowest drive. The pagefile.sys is CREATED. All that does is create the entry in the file table for the file reserving space for the file. It does not mean the entire file is written to the drive. Data in the pagefile.sys and swapfile.sys is constantly changing, the OS does not write the entire size of the pagefile.sys file at any time, including boot up. It only writes bits of data to the pagefile.sys and swapfile.sys.