I don't know why you're afraid to use your SSD, but you could symlink your demo folder to another hard drive.

ya you really need to read a fucking book on how hard drives and programs work if youre SERIOUSLY asking this question

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Having a separate folder for demos that you simlink might be a bit annoying when you want to play back demos since they won't show up in the autocomplete in the tf2 console. You could just simlink the whole tf folder to another drive in that case.

From what I understand, any recent SSD it's fine if only because they've been made such that they'll last quite a while, for more write cycles than are normally realistic before buying a new SSD. But this is completely with a grain of salt.

Not sure why it would harm your SSD. It just auto records demos in TF2. My only guess would it being taking up too much space to keep all of those demos, but that isn't really a problem.

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The lifetime of any good SSD these days is comparable to a mechanical HDD from what I've read. This means that you shouldn't really need to worry about wasting write cycles, maybe just for the more common writes like page files, temporary directories, and browser caches. As far as that goes, I use a ramdisk for my browser cache so it doesn't stress out the drive while still being fast.

You just need to make sure that you run a TRIM on the drive every week or so to keep the drive in top performance.

I don't see how it could do any harm to it, other than maybe just wearing it out but thats not really something to worry about. SSDs have gotten way more reliable

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?271063-SSD-Write-Endurance-25nm-Vs-34nm

Let's take the Crucial M4 64 GB as an example, a very common SSD. Host writes so far: 546,1 TiB (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tebibyte). That's about 600 TB. If you use the SSD for 10 years, you can write:

365 * 10 + 2,5 (leap days) = 3652,5 days
600 / 3652,5 = 0,1642710472279261 TB * 1024 = 168,2135523613963 GB a day

If you consider an SSD dead when the MWI reaches 0 (although it's not), host writes are limited to 170,8 TiB or 187,8 TB. You can write:

187,8 / 3652,5 = 0,0514168377823409 TB * 1024 = 52,65084188911704 GB a day

That's only a 64 GB SSD, 128/256 GB versions should have double/quadruple memory cells and write capacity. Now go ahead and try to write 50 GB on your SSD in one day, let alone daily. Any questions?

And don't forget, the bulk of SSD workload is read access, which is unlimited.

The whole point of your SSD is to be able to use stuff like PREC without affecting your PC throughput, where your old HD was a bottleneck.

USE IT

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