These SSDs are failing at roughly 3000 write-out cycles. Traditional hard drives can take 6 hours to write out, so doing a similar test would take ~2 years. S

These SSDs are failing at roughly 3000 write-out cycles. Traditional hard drives can take 6 hours to write out, so doing a similar test would take ~2 years. Spinning disks are so freaking slow that you could never test the reliability apples-to-apples. Any workload that wears out an SSD could never be run on a traditional HD.