This to me this is one of those 'don't worry about it' items. And by the time you do get there you'd already be looking to replace the drive anyway. You have to be moving some serious data to get there. You likely aren't either.I seriously doubt any normal user would ever exceed that limit. They have TBW ratings of 150 and higher, so you can see I'm nowhere near pushing them hard. I have written under 5 in the last year to each of my SSDs. You can track how many terabytes you write. Your warranty is likely no more than 5 years, probably less. If you were to exceed the TBW during the warranty period, the manufacturer could deny your warranty claim. If you are nervous about the amount of writes to the SSD, look at the manufacturer's specs. Is this the recommended way to wipe a NVMe SSD for reinstalling Windows? Will it decrease performance of the NVMe SSD? I've also read that I can run DISKPART and then clean the drive. I contacted the manufacturer of my laptop, and they stated that I could simply run the Microsoft Media Creation Tool to delete partitions and/or format the drive. So I can't use that tool to do a secure erase. My problem is that Intel's SSD software, called Intel SSD Toolbox, doesn't support secure erase on Windows 10 (as noted on page 32 of the software documentation).

Instead, one should use their manufacturer's SSD software to perform a secure erase (or PSID revert). However, I've read that SSDs work differently than HDDs, and one shouldn't use a tool like DBAN to write zeroes to the drive, since that'll actually decrease the performance of the SSD ( is this actually true?). On an HDD, I'd simply use Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) or a similar tool to wipe the drive, then reinstall Windows 10.

I'd like to do a clean reinstall of Windows 10 on my laptop, which has an Intel NVMe SSD installed as its only drive.

Fresh install windows 10 on ssd