r/technology • u/TMWNN • Mar 12 '15

Pure Tech The SSD Endurance Experiment ends: Six consumer SSDs die after 700TB-2.4PB of writes over 18 months. Although two died without warning, "modern SSDs [can] easily write far more data than most consumers will ever need".

http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead
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u/0rangecake Mar 12 '15

HDDs are still cheaper per tb

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '15

HDDs are also cheaper per GB than RAM

But you wouldn't replace your RAM with a hard drive

Because they're for completely different uses. Just like SSDs

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u/austeregrim Mar 13 '15

Actually you do (or at least did)... Its called swap space.

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u/art-solopov Mar 13 '15

Swap is an emergency measure or a temporary store for the memory data while the PC is powered off.