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You will have to make quite the effort to burn trough a consumer SSD in machine with normal use for a year. 256 GB * 3000 gives a lot of write information.

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In theory yes, in practice i have been using SSDs since 2009 and had them both failing (different brands and tech) after about 2 years of daily usage. Now i see i probably use them more than the average consumer, but i cant remember the last time i had a normal HDD fail in one of my machines.

I've seen a number of normal HDD failures. I think that the first one that I've seen, been with a double-5 inch slot hard drive, which was failing to start spinning at times. You've had to turn the PC box abruptly, to make it spin ;)

But as of now, have to see an SSD fail. Longest running that I have now is a Linux box that've been up since Oct/2007. (Heh, cool part about that linux box - there are no moving parts at all - no coolers, no nothing. Even in the power supply ;) )

Sounds cool :) I am not saying i have never seen HDDs fail, but in the almost 20 years i have been computing heavily, it might have been about 3 in my own machines, while i went through 2 SSDs in 4 years. Id still never go back to HDDs as my system drive :)

I've had no hard drive failures in over a decade, but my first SSD (a Crucial M4) failed in about a year. I'm back to reliable hard drives.

Indeed, the standard SSD in a consumer-type usage is 7+ years of write.

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