With the advent of 2TB SSDs beginning to hit the market I have started to look towards them as potential long term storage devices. I intend to use them to store my encoded video files which are currently stored on various hard drives and burnt onto dual layer 8.5GB DVDs. The exception would be files I encoded that are larger than 8.5GB which are only stored on the hard drive.
The question I have is how viable are SSDs for long term storage? Meaning how long is it's potential shelf life since data will only be written to a sector once, but will potentially be read many times.
I am not sure if I will buy the 2TB SSDs or wait for consumer level 4TB SSDs. I am definitely not going to cough up the $6k+ for a 4TB San Disk Optimus Max SSD.
The question I have is how viable are SSDs for long term storage? Meaning how long is it's potential shelf life since data will only be written to a sector once, but will potentially be read many times.
I am not sure if I will buy the 2TB SSDs or wait for consumer level 4TB SSDs. I am definitely not going to cough up the $6k+ for a 4TB San Disk Optimus Max SSD.