How bad is it to use SSD as Scratch Disk?

[Maxert]

I feel that SSDs are great to be used as Scratch Disk and my speed up video editing, photo editing ect.

However, I also heard that there's limit in write cycles and Scratch Disk constantly writes and erases data. Is that true?

 

[Arcanine300]

It is true that ssd's have a limited amount of read and write cycles but it is very high. Even if you are constantly reading and writing to a ssd it will take 25+ years for the ssd to become bad. But the thing you have to be worried about is bad sectors. A bad sector is when one cell on the ssd becomes overly written to than the other cells. This can result in data corruption and data saving problems. Today a lot of ssd's have technology to prevent this from happening but it is wise to once and awhile run disk management on the ssd to repair cells. For the most part using a ssd as a scratch disk is fine.

 

[mad-max79]

It depends on the amount of written data, but bad sectors aren't a problem, because SSDs handle them on their own. They get replaced by working cells. If your drive status gets bad you should replace them. But usually SSDs can handle a lot of writes, even when you fill up half the drive a day it should work years. But if you write so much you should buy SSDs like Samsung 840 Pro with high endurance.