ssd main drive nerd shit
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You don't have to worry about wear and tear. TRIM is supported on OSX Lion now too.. and the newer Sandforce 2100/2200 and later chips on latest SSDs have hardware TRIM.
So basically those slowdowns that eventually creeped up to SSD drives among first generations are not happening now. Even if they do, what you really need to do is backup everything. Do a complete factory wipe of the SSD and it will be back to it's original performance, but this was really necessary with older SSDs.
The bigger problem SSD drives had was bad firmwares that cause stutters, freezes and so on. So when you get an SSD if you feel like the money is worth it, make sure you check for the latest firmware.
This happened to me and OCZ SSD I have.. it was crashing, blue screens all over the place, kernel panic and then I updated firmware and all gone.