From what I've read online, SSD now should last the same, if not more than HDD. The nice thing about them is that you know how many writes they should handle,

From what I've read online, SSD now should last the same, if not more than HDD. The nice thing about them is that you know how many writes they should handle, and get a new one before some disaster happen. Sure, you can get a faulty unit, but you could get one with HDDs as well. Instead, for HDDs, you couldn't be really sure. Yes, there's the "broken sector" count, but this isn't always reliable. Disaster could always happen randomly, without any warning before. If you're interested in more stat, some sites are starting to run endurance tests [1][2][3][4], to see how much on average an SSD is supposed to last, and which brand is better. Anyway, the only real solution is to run a raid, and keep frequent backups. [1] http://techreport.com/review/24841/introducing-the-ssd-endurance-experiment http://techreport.com/review/24841/introducing-the-ssd-endur... / http://techreport.com/review/25320/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-22tb-update http://techreport.com/review/25320/the-ssd-endurance-experim... [2] http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?271063-SSD-Write-Endurance-25nm-Vs-34nm http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?271063-SS... [3] http://ssdendurancetest.com/ http://ssdendurancetest.com/ [4] "SSD Endurance test" on Google