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by Kenji 3740 days ago
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.
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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.