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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/anotherhappylurker on 2026-08-06 03:48:01+00:00.

I usually download torrents to my HDD, but I've run out of space, and with current storage prices the way they are, I don't really want to buy a bigger hard drive right now. I still have a nearly half-empty 1TB SATA SSD that I could torrent to instead. But I'm worried that writing so much to the drive regularly will damage it or cause it to fail shorter, since I know SSDs have limited read/write cycles before their memory becomes corrupted. Will torrenting have a significant impact on the lifespan of my SSD, or am I safe to torrent on it?