Downsides of SSD?

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swchoi89

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Hey guys,

So I've heard, that SSD's capacity to store information degrades over time if I keep occupying/deleting data from it. Is this true?
 
voyagerfan99 said:
It takes many many read/writes for the sectors of an SSD to fail.
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Yup. Most ssd's will go 8-10 years of the average person's write cycles (only writes have a finite number, reads are infinite) before starting to degrade. When a cell does hit it's max number of write cycles, it doesn't fail or become unusable, it becomes read only.

The major downside to an SSD is it's cost per gig as opposed to an HDD. In addition, because they are more expensive, they tend to be manufactured in smaller capacity sizes.
 
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strollin said:
Yup. Most ssd's will go 8-10 years of the average person's write cycles (only writes have a finite number, reads are infinite) before starting to degrade. When a cell does hit it's max number of write cycles, it doesn't fail or become unusable, it becomes read only.

The major downside to an SSD is it's cost per gig as opposed to an HDD. In addition, because they are more expensive, they tend to be manufactured in smaller capacity sizes.
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ah ok, I was afraid that I had to go and replace my SSD every year or something... I have the OCZ Vertex 3 :)
 
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