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Comment by userbinator

8 hours ago

Original mid-90s Toshiba "solid state floppy disk" SLC flash: 1M cycles

2000s SLC flash: 100K cycles

Modern SLC/pSLC flash: 30-60K cycles

2010s MLC flash: 5-10K cycles

Modern QLC flash: 300-500 cycles

...and I won't even get into the details of their retention characteristics, suffice to say they subtly redefined them over the years to make the newer numbers better than they really are.