Intel 520 SSD

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Too lazy to look it up plus I'm not currently in the market but I recall back when I first looked into SSD drives many years ago I shied away from them because of the limitation on the number of R/W operations they could handle. It was such that Breand's statement about longer life due to no moving parts was not the case and a good spinning drive would last much longer than an SSD because it had no real limitation on the number of R/W operations that could be performed (heck I am still using drives that are over 10 years old). How do the current generation of SSD drives stand in this department?

SSD's are definitely no less reliable than spinning disks... and it depends on the drive. They have read/write limits, but that's kind of based on the drive. I've seen some people do tests that say if they did a constant read/write to their SSD, it would hit the limit in 20-30 years. I've seen some manufacturers sites say they will last over 100 years.

Due to the read/write limits, a lot of people(like myself), use them for OS/Games only, and move all of the shit that writes all the time(like my docs etc) and doesn't require the performance to their spinning disk.

My opinion would be... Don't let fear of it failing be a reason not to buy one. They are like anything else... you may buy it and it may fail in 2 weeks... that's what warranties are for!