Do SSD disks do not last as long with Windows XP as with other OS? [closed]

One other big problem is partition alignment - Windows XP aligns to old disk style by default, but SSDs need 4KB alignment internally. Otherwise you're doubling the volume of writes because a lot of things will overlap internally. (I'm not really qualified to talk about this at extensive length, so maybe somebody can elaborate at this - it's not really my area of expertise.)

That said, I am still fairly surprised if your disks are failing this fast. SSDs can be pretty failure prone unless you're careful about what you buy - this wouldn't surprise me nearly as much from OCZ or Crucial SSDs as it would from Intel ones (which I can vouch for in dozens on XP machines with no problem).

My personal opinion? XP may not be helping, but it's probably mostly a red herring.

TRIM is also good for keeping the drive health up. The reason is simple: On writing a SSD swapps blocks very often for limiting the maximum count of write operations for each block.

On a SSD never trimmed the only available blocks for swapping are those from the reserved free space (blocks that are not directly accessible because the SSD has more flash memory available internally than it offers to the outside).

On a SSD well trimmed the pool of available blocks also contains those that are free on disk. Therefore the write operations can be spread among more blocks.

I cannot visualize how different flavors of an OS can reduce the MTBF of an SSD! The whole idea of an SSD is to increase storage reliability, access times and life expectancy of the storage medium. How many SSD's has this happened to? Have you experimented with different SSD manufacturers?