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by Dylan16807 324 days ago
> Great, now I have an SSD that is treated as a consummative and will die and need to be replaced.

It's only consumable if you hit the write limit. Hard drive arrays are usually not intended for tons of writes. SSDs $100 or less go up to at least 2000 terabytes written (WD Red SN700). How many hundreds of gigabytes of churn do you need per day?