Originally Posted by rowan

Don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting that in a normal situation your SSD is going to die after a year, but you do need to be more aware that every write will (slightly) reduce the life of your SSD. This is completely different to a HDD which can write the same area a million times over and still be fine.

I have found that SSDs tend to fail suddenly and absolutely (eg total brick, not detected by the BIOS), whereas HDDs often give you some hints they're not feeling so good (excessive access delays, clicking etc)