A reader* asks: “Is it OK to use NTFS on a SSD? Why or why not?”
With any reasonably current SSD and operating system, it’s perfectly fine.
An SSD (or any disk, for that matter) really doesn’t care what’s in the bits it stores. The formatting of the disk itself — as well as user data, the operating system files, and everything else on the disk — is all just ones and zeroes anyway.
But it wasn’t always so, and that’s probably why you’re asking this question.
For example, in the early days of SSDs, there were issues with wear-leveling — some setups would write data to the same memory cells over and over, causing excessive wear. (All flash memory cells have a finite life in write-cycles.)
And before Win7 and Server 2008, no OS natively supported the full TRIM standard; designed to help return an SSD’s deleted-file space back to use with a minimum of write cycles; speeding operation and further reducing unnecessary wear.
But for years now, all major SSDs, and all major operating systems, incorporate wear-leveling and TRIM, so it’s really a non-issue.
Use whatever format you wish — e.g. NTFS with Windows — and your SSD should be fine!
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