<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>An SSD from a well known manufacturer will last longer and be faster than any rotating hard drive. The controllers and firmware in the drive are designed to compensate for wear-out problems. Buy something from Intel, Samsung, OCZ or STEC and you will be just fine.</div>
<div><br></div><div>(I was a firmware engineer for an SSD company for 11.9 years. I don't have time right now to give a detailed answer. Just trust me. ;-) )</div><div><br></div><div>Alan</div><div><br>On Apr 2, 2013, at 12:52 PM, Nadim Hoque <<a href="mailto:nadimhoque@gmail.com">nadimhoque@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Technically they are supposed to last just as long as regular hard drives but again the problem is that no one really tested in a production environment. From what I hear (I may be wrong) but most people use the ssd essentially as a cache space and even in enterprises they do. This is what I suggest you do with the SSD so that if the drive does die, you don't lose your important data.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Derek Trotter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:expat.arizonan@gmail.com" target="_blank">expat.arizonan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have a question about SSDs. I've read that they like the USB thumb drives can be written to a certain number of times before they fail. What is the expected lifetime of an SSD? They're terribly expensive if they're only going to last 2 or 3 years.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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