Well at least for YouTube video storage, I imagine the P&#x2F;E cycles are not a problem. There have been issues with longevity like on the Samsung 840 EVO drives, but if you can avoid that then you can build some incredibly dense, fast, reliable and power efficient storage on top of V-NAND.<p>Cost per GB for SSDs is definitely catching up to HDD [1] and I think is expected to match or beat HDD within the decade. Power efficiency should be better on SSD and MTBF will be much better than HDD, so I would have thought TCO for SSD would have HDDs basically beat already.<p>[1]  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cms-images.idgesg.net&#x2F;images&#x2F;article&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;ssd-vs-hdd-chart-retry-100631270-orig.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cms-images.idgesg.net&#x2F;images&#x2F;article&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;ssd-vs-...</a>