A Tour Inside CloudFlare's Latest Generation Servers
> "SSDs give us three advantages. First, they tend to fail gradually over time rather than catastrophically"<p>Uh, I've <i>never</i> had one fail gradually...<p>> "Intel reports that the 520-series drives have a mean time between failure (MTBF) of 1,200,000 hours (about 137 years)."<p>Yes, but they have a maximum write cycle, you can blow through the average consumer drive in a month and a half of concerted writing.