With those, you'll be able to enjoy your SSD carefree, for years and years to come! It'll show you how to achieve a very good result by applying just a few rather simple measures. This how-to is meant to be a 'best practice'. On the one hand you have people who don't take any special measures for SSD's at all, and on the other hand you see people who take all kinds of extreme and complicated precautions. First a word of caution: don't exaggerate! There's a lot of exaggeration to be found on the web on this issue. Enjoy your SSD carefree for years and years Dual boot or Virtual Machine? Don't let Windows kill your SSD Limiting the disk write actions of Chrome Putting the Firefox network cache into the RAM Limiting the disk write actions of Firefox BIOS and UEFI: make sure it's set to AHCI