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Thor, as much as it's astonishing how fast SSDs are, it's also astonishing how fast they can die. To clarify:

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They work on the same principle as USB flash drives, allowing 1 000 - 10 000 read/write cycles (MLC memory) or 100 000 (SLC memory), the second ones being a hell of a lot more expensive. If you think 100 000 cycles is a lot, think again, I destroyed a 40GB SSD with SLC memory cells in 9 months by simply using it as storage. But it was dirt cheap so I don't give a f***.

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A single 256GB SSD costs aproximately 300$, you'll pay a whole lot of money for something that has lightning fast read/write speeds but a very short life cycle. In my honest opinion, you'd be better off buying two 2TB Seagate Barracuda SATA HDDs (7200 RPM) for 200$ both and have slower memory but 8 times more of it. Or six of them (12TB combined) for the same price of two 256GB SSDs and have more memory than god.

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But that's just my opinion. In the end, it's your money and your PC, not mine.

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I experience a lack of memory no matter how much memory I have, 820GB and it's still not enough. That's why I'll be getting four of those 2TB Seagate Barracuda HDDs I mentioned by the end of next month, thank god I have enough money to actually do that now.

Not true i have a last gen ssd and its still kicking around with heavy gaming use, that claim is false.

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that particular ssd is around 240gb at nearly the 190$ mark after taxes around 200$..

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