Sandisk Ultra Plus 256GB SATA III SSD SDSSDHP-256G-G25 $160AC @Newegg

Quote from orion2001 : I wouldn't use it in enterprise systems, but for regular users, the reduced lifetime hardly changes much for the end user. Anandtech had an article about the reliability, but some users have also been testing it as here: http://www.xtremesystems.org/foru...ost5163560 That is about ~121.5 GiB a day for 10 years... hardly a normal use case. This is utter BS unless you can back that up with some sources. I just did, I'd hope you could do the same instead of unnecessary fear mongering.

Wow. Those endurance numbers are being based off of 10Gib writes per day. I typically do between 70GiB to 80GiB a day on my drives in 24/7 operation. I wouldn't have expected such a low number from even a typical consumer. A claim for 121GiB for 10 years is outlandish based on the closer to ~1000 to 1500 write cycle limit on TLC drives. But based on those figures a ~20 year life cycle can be expected on a 250gb TLC drive for what is considered the typical consumer. I would not have expected my own usage scenario to be so outside of the typical user so that my bad on that considering I could not reasonably use a basic TLC drive for more than 2-3 years.