Forum Overview :: American McGee's Honda Civic :: worse in some ways, better in others. They have a 3yr warranty (vs 5 for HDDs).

[quote name="Ray of Light"]Flash blocks wear out after x thousand erase/write cycles. The flash controller uses wear-leveling to mitigate (rewrite the same "disk block" ten times, each new version is stored in a different physical location). It also comes with hidden capacity, used to further diffuse the writes and provide replacements for worn-out blocks. Intel says 5 years of SSD life if you write 100GB/day to an 80GB drive (a bigger drive would last longer, presumably). A couple of makers (SanDisk for one) offer 10-year SSD warranties. Conversely, flash is immune to the environmental and mechanical hazards that kill HDDs -- shock, heat, vibration, particulates, dead motors. There are isolated reports of very high SSD infant mortality rates; the press at large and newegg reviews do not bear these out. I couldn't justify the expense of mirrored SSD; I do frequent backups instead.[/quote]