Purely as an anecdotal data point, I'm a developer so due to constant compiling and other side-effects of my position, I suspect I work my SSD's harder on the w

Purely as an anecdotal data point, I'm a developer so due to constant compiling and other side-effects of my position, I suspect I work my SSD's harder on the write side than average. Using consumer grade SSD's I haven't had any more failures than I did with platters.