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About the Life about the SSD's used in Portable audio players,..

knightofdames

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I have bought a sony MP3 player with is heart shaped, I was thinking about the amount of write cycles it can handle which is not mentioned in the Speck sheet..

How good are they?
 
With a portable device, chances are it'll be broken mechanically by dropping it or simple physical wear and tear long before the memory module fails.
 
I believe typical write endurance cycles for internal Flash Memory is around 100,000 times.

 
SSD write cycles ranges between 800k to 2m depending on the type of memory.