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Originally Posted by Traum
Just a quick clarification -- I'm not concerned about SSD dying after its expected number of write cycles are exhausted. After all, stuff is meant to be used, and if their expected service life has been reached, so be it. And for your work, if an SSD can dramatically speed up your processing, you'd be silly to not go for it and continue to rely on older HDD technologies.
My only concern pertains to the fact that when the big SSD dies from high usage, it'll take your OS along with it since they are all on the same drive. That might not be so desirable.
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An SSD doesn't crap out all at once. Once bad parts start to form they are marked off as unusable and the reserved space gets released to fill in the lost space. Once the reserved space runs out the SSD space available will simply start to shrink. In terms of reliability.
For example. My Samsung 250GB SSD uses TLC chips. Anand calculates that writing at 100GB a day yields like 8 years of usage. I'll probably have upgraded by that time let alone even writing close to 100GB a day. MLC will last even longer. So it's kinda a moot point. Also larger drives have better endurance. A 1TB should be able to write 100GB a day for 31 years based on TLC chip.