[PLUG] question on NAND solid state drives lifetime

[wes]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 8:01 PM, website reader
<website.reader3 at gmail.com>wrote:

> While I understand that solid state drives considerably speed things
> up on the motherboard, others have discouraged me from purchasing
> such, stating that the NAND technology only permits a limited number
> of writes.
>
> My applications are number theory processing and image fft analysis,
> so will my system eventually fall victim to the limited write cycles
> of the NAND solid state drives?  I do hammer files continuously
> sometimes.
>
> Does anyone have some experience with ssd?
>
> The newer drives (particularly Intel and OCZ) look very promising... but
> ???
>
> - Randall
>


There is truth to this, however modern drives have found solutions to this
problem. It's really a small concern any more.

-wes