Will gaming kill my SSD?

Imz Deodex

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Oct 15, 2014
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Hello, I just bought a Western Digital BLUE 500gb SSD. I have Battlefield 1, Cities Skylines, and Overwatch installed. I've read that I should keep enough space for my SSD to maintain itself. But I was wondering, does gaming on my SSD really harmful? everytime you boot up a program or a game doesn't it "load" or "write" the assets? is this harmful? thanks
 
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Unless the drive physically fails it’ll be fine. You will not write to it enough to harm it unless you go out of your way to do so.

USAFRet

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No, it is not harmful.
You just need to keep about 10-15% free space on it.

My system, as are many, are SSD only. No spinning hard drives at all.
Just use it, and don't stress.