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by mrob 3741 days ago
I don't use Windows so I don't have GAC or registry files. Browser cache always goes on the SSD because it's highly latency sensitive.
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You say browser cache always goes on the SSD (I do that too, whenever there's no configuration to put it into RAM, which I prefer). Aren't you concerned about wear? If you stream high resolution video files from, say, youtube or twitch, you write gigabyte after gigabyte into that SSD.
Modern SSDs will survive hundreds of TBs of writes, sometimes even PBs. Techreport did a long endurance test with multiple drives:

http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experim... "All of the drives surpassed their official endurance specifications by writing hundreds of terabytes without issue."

I expect to upgrade for increased capacity long before I reach that.