How Long Will My SSD Last? Best Practices to Improve Your SSD’s Life Expectancy?

The primary benefit of using SSDs over HDDs is their speed. Solid State Drives offer incredibly faster performance compared to the traditional hard disks. SSDs don’t have physical moving parts (such as spinning platters) and as such, they consume little energy and make no noise.

However, SSDs have a few major drawbacks. They’re very expensive and thus, limited in size. There are ‘write’ limitations with SSDs. Writing too much data can decrease your SSD’s overall lifespan. So, if you’ve recently bought an SSD, sit back and read this guide to get a glimpse about it’s expected lifespan and the best practices to improve your SSD’s life expectancy.

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Defragging an SSD for Better Speed & Performance

What is Disk Fragmentation and What Causes it?

Disk fragmentation is a natural occurrence as the files on your SSD are constantly being read and written. In order to fit a file on your disk, your PC breaks it into multiple pieces which takes more time to read, write the data and impacts your system performance. Constant adding and deleting files contributes to disk fragmentation.

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