This is how SSDs work and what you can do to make yours last longer

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Traditional hard drives will be here for long time thanks to their large storage space and affordability. However, there is no question that solid-state drives (SSDs) will be the future of storage. Most new computers now come with an SSD as the main storage device. If you have an older (or a new budget-class) machine that still runs on a regular hard drive, it's definitely time to upgrade. (Here's some instructions on how to upgrade on a PC and a Mac.) The speed gains you'll experience from upgrading to an SSD will be by far the biggest performance improvement your computer ever has.

But is it all unicorns and lollipops with SSDs? Not quite. SSDs still fall short in a few places compared to normal hard drives, in particular regarding their write endurance. This means you can only write a finite amount of data to an SSD before you can't write anymore. In this post, I'll talk about this shortcoming and how to mitigate it. Most of my suggestions will be focused on Windows PCs.

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-ssds...ease-lifespan/

I found this as an interesting article. It may help those here that are not PC gurus to understand the difference between hard drives (we are blessed with some knowledgeable members here) and I learned a lot from the article.

I have two SSDs. One in my notebook and one in my external backup drive. I want one for my desktop but have been putting off buying one mainly because of the cost and the current hard drive is not that old. As with most I want more speed for my PC.

Reckon I'll start shopping.