On 05/23/2011 09:39 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 05/23/2011 02:31 AM, Kevin Thorpe wrote: >> Just be aware that SSDs wear out. They have a limited number of write >> cycles. Nowadays they all do 'wear levelling' to even the writes >> across the drive but even so they don't last very long in heavy write >> usage. > Yes, there's a limit number of writes. With wear leveling you should be > able to write to the drive at its full rate, constantly, for years > before you actually wear out the drive. However, SSD drive reliability itself has been very poor in the field. The failure rate is obscene. See Jeff Atwood's 'The Hot/Crazy Solid State Drive Scale': <URL:http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-drive-scale.html> -- Benjamin Franz