That was true with early-generation SSDs, but modern gear doesn't exhibit write-cycle exhaustion characteristics. Tom's Hardware investigated a variety of claims about SSDs. It's a somewhat lengthy article, and well worth the time to read. Firmware improvements and wear-leveling have matured enough that SSDs now appear to have about the same reliability as rotating media. But we don't have enough data yet to believe vendor claims that SSDs are more reliable. And since I back up everything twice anyway (*), a dead drive is not a catastrophe for me.
(*) nightly to my Windows Home Server, which in turn backs up to the cloud.
(*) nightly to my Windows Home Server, which in turn backs up to the cloud.
Comment