Invisible schrieb:

> I haven't seen any data about the reliability of SSD vs HD. Bare in mind 
> that flash RAM has a theoretically limited number of write cycles.

I once read an article about that. Quintessence was that with a properly 
  designed SSD, that does sophisticated "load balancing" of write cycles 
across its memory blocks, it would take several /years/ of writing at 
the maximum transfer rate to come anywhere close to the current limits...

And as storage capacity increases, so does the time it takes to screw up 
any one block of a write-cycle-balancing SSD.

One caveat though, at least theoretically, is that the lifetime will 
probably depend on how much data you store on the SSD. For instance, a 
maxed-out drive doesn't have many spare blocks to balance write loads 
on, so it might become technically possible to screw up a block by 
repeatedly overwriting the same portion of a single file while leaving 
all the other files unchanged.

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