Does installing and uninstalling games in an SSD kill my SSD?

[sammael1984]

Hello, guys;

I have an 850 EVO 120 GB (SSD) and I wanted it primarly for two things, my OS (Win7) and my Antivirus/Antimalware/etc. This is a gaming computer, I don't want to do a lot of browsing as I want to keep security a priority.

My question is, if I install a game and uninstall it when I no longer need/play it, (Diablo III for instance since I hate the loading times), would that mess my SSD? To be honest I have no experience on this so, I don't know. My other alternative is to use my Western Digital Black 1TB and just install it and play it there.

Thanks, guys.

 

[kapitalistas]

no not at all just you dont wanna defragmentetion process for SSD.

 

[nukemaster]

SSD's have so many write cycles(program erase).

Now the SSD manages this limit by ensuring data writes across the full drive allowing each cell to not wear out too fast.

Installing and uninstalling games would only be a real issue if you did it MANY times a day and then it would still take a long time.

Installing games involve large writes of data and SSD's manage this very well. Small writes are more of an issue(but again, it takes lots of them to cause any real issues).