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Old 03-20-2012, 11:57 PM  
rowan
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Originally Posted by Brent 3dSexCash View Post
THE NICE THING ABOUT SSDS is....even if your drive fails (i.e. you've killed it by writing too many times), your machine will still boot, and you can still get all the data off it. It has an unlimited 'read' life cycle.
This would probably only be relevant with that little 8GB drive that you paid $1000 for in 2004... with modern SSDs it's unlikely that typical use would ever wear out the cells.

SSDs as a whole are still pretty flaky. A current drive is more likely to just die completely than go "read only" because you wrote to it too many times.
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