I don't have an SSD... YET
My question is what are all the things that you need to disable to extend the life of your SSD,
defrag, indexing, what else, because I use my PC for at least 5 years before buying a new one, and most companies rate their SSD lfiespan to be 5 years.
SSDs having a limit to the no. of read/writes don't seem to be promising,
I have this mega old PC running triple 5GB hard drives that have been running for 10 years maybe
Well, I'll be assuming you have windows 7.
The Main things you want to disable, not necessarily due to extension of life, but more of something that is unnecessary.
-Never ever defragment, disable it
-Disable superfetch
-Disable Prefetch
-Disable File Indexing
Some other things you should consider are:
Disable hibernation file
Disable Page File (windows barely use pagefile if not at all if you have sufficient ram anyway, but SSD's are expensive and a pagefile and hibfile take up LOTS of space, so either disable it or move it to another HDD, or shrink it.
^It won't really increase life, but it will free up system resources because these resource intensive tasks are simply not need on an SSD, on an HDD they are helpful though.
SSDs having a limit to the no. of read/writes don't seem to be promising
Its not like that. Imagine a car (HDD) that has an unknown limit to how many miles it can do before breaking. Imagine this car as unreliable and breaking after lets say 100,000 miles usually due to failure. Now Imagine a Car that has a "known" limit of exactly 1,000,000miles before failure, and is far more reliable and is almost garenteed to reach that mark before failing. The point is that, just because the SSD has a limit doesn't make its life shorter then an HDD, infact SSD's are 1000x more reliable and can last far longer then an HDD due to better vibration tolerance, temperature tolerance, and no mechanical parts.