from the reading so far, it seems to me that the average SSD should be able to write at least 2500x its capacity (ignoring the small sample size here, where drives here are hitting ~4000+x their capacities). it makes me wonder how much a conventional consumer level HDD can handle under the same kinds of workloads.
I'd love to see what kind of per capacity comparison consumer HDDs have (from conservative estimates- a 1TB HDD should be able to write AT LEAST 2.5PB to match up with what SSDs can handle) and it seems to me that the app that's being used for testing on the SSDs would be a program of choice to test that...if anyone else is interested to see (as I'm not sure if normal HDDs have any sort of SMART attribute that monitors writes)