SSD write is actually a lot more durable than it sounds, even if it is limited at 3,000 writes per block. Say you get an Intel 320 160GB and then write 160GB to it every day, it will easily last you for 5 years and have an upper limit of 8 years and 2 months.
Most small and medium businesses will find it impossible to exhaust any given SSD's write limit and most large businesses will find it very challenging to accomplish. When Cyclonechuah says write-intensive, it means writing more than 1x the SSD's storage capacity per day. And by per day, I mean every day, including weekends and holidays. So it really depends on how and where the SSD is going to be used. And it is possible to roughly estimate how long any SSD would last you, and most estimates actually over-estimate how much writes you'll consume.
This post has been edited by everling: Jan 16 2012, 03:54 PM
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