6 months on mine a Kingston 240GB for £80 they became cheap enough, life span isn't really an issue if it lasts 2 years which is my average replace time I'm more than happy. So much quicker at doing everything and no annoying hard disk rattling sound while things uncompress or the PC's disk caching stuff. I download 1 - 5GB's per day of TV / Movies I guess then extract it, watch delete so guess that's going to hammer it's life, but still 5days to use the 50gb I've got left x 10,000 write cycles, that's 50,000 days that's 136 years, my life expentancy is likely @36years so it'll do.
Early SSD's built-in firmware did a poor job of distributing the read/write process over the available memory. As a result there could have been early failure due to excessive writing to specific memory locations. In addition, the operating systems were not written to work well with SSDs. Today's operating systems and SSD firmware is much better at spreading the writes around and not defragmenting SSD's.. Jack
Well, that's really cool news and quite opposit from what I have heard from many many different people out there for many many cases really. I do see that I may need obtain some more SSD's for my new gaming rig anyway. Please do obtain something like 1TB SSD, they are like $100 now for good one.
Need to order 1 for my gaming rig which I barely use then use that full time and retire this old Win 7 Core 2 Duo for 32Bit work requirements only. Old Spinner, annoys me too much, feels soooo much slower doing anything.