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cMags · 01-24-2008, 01:12 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by ComputerGeek

don't worry about the SSD lifespan, windows or Linux it will last for years under normal use. don't confuse an high-endurance flash in an SSD with the significantly shoter lifespan of a removable flash card. modern SSD's are good for at least 1,000,000 write/erase cycles. at a constant 40MB/s transfer rate it would take over 3 years of continuous writing to kill a modern SSD. the technology is over 10 years old now and is ready for use as a reliable HDD replacement.

I stand corrected. It must be true, coming from a user whose name is ComputerGeek.

I wonder when we'll see reasonable SSD's in IDE or SATA - hell a 16GB flash drive is down to like $60 in places. That'd be more than plenty for C:\...

01-24-2008, 01:12 PM	#7
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