The limitation is not in read/write cycles, but rather write/erase cycles.
> Jonathan Berry wrote:
>
>>Aryeh wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Right now, SSDs seem to go
>>>for about $115.00USD to $315.00USD per GB, which makes them still fairly
>>>pricey compared to their rotating media counterparts.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>No kidding. With the Samsung 32GB SSD looking like about a $900
>>item, I'm hoping that other, slower devices will have to meet
>>the market at less than $30 a GB. About $19 / GB would meet my
>>price point of $150 for an 8GB SSD.
>>
>>
>>
> How well do these things stand up to the millions of read/writes that
> would occur if the SSD were used instead of a primary hard drive? I
> thought I read somewhere that they had a limited number of r/w cycles.
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