I honestly don't know, but I believe it to be so. The problem is that the article doesn't state by how much it's life cycle is shortened.
I stopped using hard drives about two years ago and I've never looked back. I understand that video editors and animators have to use hard drives for their huge data needs, but the performance of my SSD is killer. I used to own the Samsung 840 EVO and upgraded to the Samsung 850 EVO. I have four of those drives in RAID 0 and I have a single Intel 750 PCIe SSD 400 GB, which has five times the read performance of a single 850 EVO. I used to work on the IT staff of a hegde fund trading floor here in New York and I've never personally seen a SSD fail. I'm sure it happens, but I've never once seen it. I've definitely seen hard drives fail though. Samsung has, but they haven't yet released to the public, 2 TB and 4 TB models, but they will undoubted be way more expensive than traditional hard drives.