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<font face="Comic Sans MS">This guy seems to know what he's talking
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">From: </span>Lisa Kachold <<a title="mailto:lisakachold@obnosis.com" href="mailto:lisakachold@obnosis.com" target="_parent">lisakachold@obnosis.com</a>><br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Date: </span>Tuesday, April 2,
2013 1:24 PM<br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject: </span>Re: SSDs<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I have also found that in deference to their
claims some of the SSDs are SLOWER than regular enterprise
drives.
<div>I believe this new technology leaves a lot
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:27 PM,
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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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