CHKDSK on SSD

Chkdsk wears out the hard drive just like any other drive activity; maybe just a bit more. Basically it can be used safely, but as with any hard drive use it will eventually cause the drive to fail.

Oh, but my old computer should be fine?

Hard drives have an average life of about 6 or 7 years, depending on usage. The more you use it the shorter it will last, it is the same with chkdsk. It is OK to use, but just do not over do it. I do mine when there are performance problems or once a month.

Well since it still works, I guess it is fine. Is running it about once every month fine for a ssd and a HDD?

I do it about once a month, and I do not have any problems. My hard drive is almost 6 years old and running fine. That being said I do not have a ssd, but as far as I know there is no difference in this area.

Well since ssds have a limited amount of read/write cycles, I would assume you would have to run it a little less often just to be safe.

I would agree with that

The concern is the number of writes that can be done to a SSD. It's really unfounded, especially with newer SSD drives. They have an expected life many times that of the older magnetic platter (spinners some call them) drives.

whs said:

Jack, what did you get as a result.

I don't remember the exact wording but as I remember their where no problems found.

I didn't even want to run Check Disk. It just popped up out of no where like had scheduled it. Which I had not done. It did take me a while to figure out why.

I left a DVD movie in the player that is set to boot before my system SSD.
So Windows 7 figured I needed a Check Disk done.

I removed the DVD rebooted and let the Check Disk complete and all is well.