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How many times can you write to the new mbp retina flash drive?

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Mar 30, 2012
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Hello.

I want to get a top spec mbp retina for music, video and heavy internet usage.

And I would like to know how many times can you write to the new mbp retina flash drive?

And can the Flash drive be change by a authorised apple service provider?
 
Seven. And than it's ruined. Forever.
And it's soldered to motherboard so you'll have to throw it away. In the trash.
 
Even at the absolute worst of 1000 erase cycles. Even if the right amplification is 3x you will have to write rewrite your entire drive once a day every day for about a year about you can't write it anymore (however you will still be able to read the data on it). It's probably around 3K erase cycles and that means you could rewrite the whole drive daily for about 3 years, if the write amplication is about 1.5, you get 6 years. In other words durability of SSD's is not an issue and grossly overrated.

People also disregard the fact that mechanical hard drivers CAN and often DO fail. Those heads wear out. The spindle motors wear out. If you rewrote a consumer hard drive on a daily basis for a year I'm quite sure it would fial.
 
I know you are looking for a number. I wouldn't worry about it too much with the spec. Just use your system and enjoy the snappy performance. I have my for years, and it still works great. I do a lot of photo editing with LightRoom and Premiere occationally :D
 
They are using the samsung 830, so whatever that model's limitations are. It's definitely a lot lol.
 
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