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Samsung 840 SSD

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I bought a Samsung 840 500GB SSD, got it all partitioned and loaded. I have a Dell 5110. When I went to replace the HDD, the YouTube video looked wicked complex, so I called the local PC repair store. They told me I needed to re install Windows and disable the paging file and some other heavy disk usage, because it would wear out the SSD and kill it.
Looks like the web info does suggest this. Samsung provides a 5 year warranty, much longer than I keep my laptops.
Is there are "real" concern that a straight imaged HDD to SSD for this laptop will not last longer than a couple of years. The SSD is partitioned with only 451 of the 500 configured.
any suggestions of what to do next? Proceed or send back the SSD.

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Quickly looking at Magician on my 830

Beyond Trim (which it has set active)
it recommends
- Super Fetch should be off
- Defrag should be off
- Ready boost should be off
- Indexing should be off.

You have an 840 - so it may differ.. but like I said... RTFM
Cheers
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