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Alan Vos27/12/2017 18:57:53
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Posted by SillyOldDuffer on 27/12/2017 17:48:19:

I'm not sure how necessary this is today on a hobby computer. Modern SSDs have better built-in wear levelling that should reduce the damage XP does. On the minus side, no-one supports SSDs on XP because it's obsolete and really effective cooperation between SSDs and Microsoft didn't exist until Windows 7 and later. All bets are off - don't expect old computers to support new technology! On the plus side, an SSD installed on a lightly loaded XP machine might last 'long enough' for the owner to not care about the reduced lifetime. I expect a decent SSD would take a couple of years ill-treatment before flaking out!

Wear levelling works wonders. The SSD keeps track internally of how many times a storage cell has been written to. If that gets too high, it moves the data to an unused cell, or swaps with a used cell that has fewer writes. You can't wear out a single cell, you can only wear out the whole drive. In practice, this never happens.

The warning about old computers and new technology is also true. Been there, lost the battle. Personally, unless there is some compelling need to use an SSD with XP, 'spinning rust' would be the more predictable option. Always have a backup.

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