When using an SSD as your main drive (on a laptop or desktop), it should be kept as clutter-free as possible.
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used to be the case, but such care is no longer really necessary.
The "write endurance" of modern SSDs is above the threshold where most consumers need to worry. They are much self-healing in that they come with plenty of spare storage cells to replace ones that have worn out from too many write cycles. Unless you're filling filling your drive nearly to capacity (more than 90ish%), and then deleting a bunch of data, then filling it again, over and over like you would if you were doing video production or something on it -- then you don't really need to worry about your SSD any more than you did with spinning disks.
That being said, be sure to get a high-quality ssd that's as big as you can afford so that you don't fill it too quickly. 1TB drives are pretty reasonable now. I'll leave it to Ken or others to recommend a brand.
