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It still costs 10x disk, even though both are fantastically cheap compared to decade ago.

Flash still has limited write cycles. Its for data you probably wont write more than once an hour, but not virtual memory.



  > Flash still has limited write cycles. Its for data you probably wont write more than once an hour, but not virtual memory.
You can write data to SSDs a lot more than once an hour, even virtual memory. The drive's firmware (assuming it does its job) will do wear-leveling and spread the logical writes across different physical locations on the drive.

If you write 20GB of data per day to a modern 480GB SSD you can expect 25 years of service. (Realistically, something else will probably fail before then)

Example - http://www.anandtech.com/show/8520/sandisk-ultra-ii-240gb-ss...


Is that 10x cost per byte?




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