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.