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		gpvos on July 1, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SSDs cost half of what they did in 2011 What worried me most is that SSDs with the apparently current 22nm size have only 2k/3k write cycles, where older ones had 10k. Seems a bit low to me.

philjohn on July 1, 2012 [–]

It is low, but controller technology has come on as well. cxtreme systems have a 2xnm endurance test going on at the moment and a 256 GB Samsung 830 has got to 2.4 PB written so far and is still going strong (at an average rate of over 200 MB/s).

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