Comment by fc417fc802

> it wouldn't survive more TBW/$

Yes it would, by an almost arbitrarily large margin. You can test this out for yourself. Overwrite one of each in an endless loop. Whenever the flash based drive fails, replace it and continue. See how long it takes for the optane to fail.

You should be able to kill a typical consumer flash drive in well under a week. Even high end enterprise gear will be dead within a couple of months.