Intel's DC S3700 solid-state drive
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Intel on Monday introduced its latest solid-state drive, the DC S3700, which offers up to 800GB of storage space and will become available in early 2013.
The chip maker says the drive incorporates a new technology called High Endurance Technology (HET) that leads to much better endurance. Basically, the new drive can handle 10 full drive writes per day and still last a full 5-year life span for its lowest capacities. For the highest, 800GB capacity, this translates into a life span of almost 200 years should you choose to use it for video editing constantly.
The reason endurance is important in SSDs is that flash memory generally suffers from limited program/erase (PE) cycles, meaning each of the memory cells can be written on only so many times before it becomes unreliable.
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