SSD has a limited life span that is a fraction of the life of a taken care of hard drive.
Bear in mind all an SSD is is a large econo sized flash drive. After so many operations it goes kaput. A hard drive that is taken care of will run for decades.
If you use the SDD as the primary drive in your system and do a lot of hard drive intensive operations, the SSD will reach its MTBF and all your data will be gone along with your OS.
While less prone to impact damage or impact related failure, The cost factors by the gig are still too much unless you have a design need for it.
OhSnapWord already addressed the wear leveling aspects that increase the lifetime of an ssd to become very close to that of an hdd, however I would like to point out that once a memory cell reaches it's finite number of write cycles the data is NOT lost and the drive does not go "kaput". The cell simply becomes read only.SSD has a limited life span that is a fraction of the life of a taken care of hard drive.
Bear in mind all an SSD is is a large econo sized flash drive. After so many operations it goes kaput. A hard drive that is taken care of will run for decades.
If you use the SDD as the primary drive in your system and do a lot of hard drive intensive operations, the SSD will reach its MTBF and all your data will be gone along with your OS.
While less prone to impact damage or impact related failure, The cost factors by the gig are still too much unless you have a design need for it.
I agree with what he said, SSD's are mainly for Os and apps. Keep writing to a bare minimal, like temp. files.strollin said:OhSnapWord already addressed the wear leveling aspects that increase the lifetime of an ssd to become very close to that of an hdd, however I would like to point out that once a memory cell reaches it's finite number of write cycles the data is NOT lost and the drive does not go "kaput". The cell simply becomes read only.
More than likely, the ssd will be replaced with a larger/faster/newer model long before the max number of write cycles is reached.