

That’s because each cell of flash memory on the drive only has a limited number of writes before it can’t be written to anymore.


Much of the advice on “optimizing” Windows for an SSD involves reducing the amount of writes to the SSD. There are a lot of guides out there about optimizing your SSD, but we don’t recommend following most of them. Some of the advice is outdated, and some of it was never necessary. SSDs Aren’t as Small or Fragile as They Used to Be
