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Originally Posted by Banana
What about the lifespan? I recall SDD being very short-lived compared to platters?
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Depends.
In fact, that's the selling point, as far as I'm concerned. The life span of a traditional hard disk in a portable device is probably much shorter than a SSD because of the mechanical failure due to vibration and such.
Here's the wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive
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Limited write cycles. Typical Flash storage will typically wear out after 300,000-500,000 write cycles...
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