using an SSD for gaming on Win8.1, is it bad or good?

[pipirupi123]

I'm thinking about swapping out my old 1tb HDD for a 1tb 2.5" SSD (https://www.wdc.com/products/solid-state-drives/wd-blue-ssd.html#WDS100T1B0A) for my gaming desktop but I'm concerned that heavy gaming (6+ hrs daily) would kill the SSD, I've also read sometime ago that defragmenting an SSD is bad therefore I should disable Windows from doing it, is this true? should I disable it on Windows 8.1 if I do get an SSD and would it be bad for the SSD if I were to install/play games heavily on it?

 

[greens]

You can game on an SSD all day without any problem. You won't be seeing platters in gaming rigs at all in the near future.
You want to minimize needless reads and writes to the disk, sure, but honestly it is a non issue.

You don't need to defrag an SSD. The entire premise of defrag doesn't apply to SSDs which do not seek.
You shouldn't even need to disable it. The SSD isn't going to be FAT32 and ask for a chkdsk every time your force shut down or anything.

 

[greens]

You're talking petabytes of writes before it becomes an issue.
http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead/2

Looks like something near 3000000GB before guaranteed failure.
You'd have to fill up a 250GB SSD 12,000 times before it dies.

 

[Eximo]

In other words, by the time you have to worry about it, new drives will be 4 times as large and half the price, and you'll want one.