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Re:SanDisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year. by tim333 on Saturday May 03, 2014 @01:40PM (#7691637)
There seems a lot of contradictory data out there but Techreport did an experiment with 6 consumer grade 256GB drives endlessly reading and writing:

http://techreport.com/review/24841/introducing-the-ssd-endur...

They were still going after 600TB of read writes though with some degradation:

http://techreport.com/review/26058/the-ssd-endurance-experim...

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Re:SanDisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year. by jhallenworld on Saturday May 03, 2014 @02:32PM (#7691868)
Interesting, my one quibble is that I don't see anything about the temperature. Flash memory is very sensitive to it.
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