How long will an SSD last if I fill it up and erase it over and over?

Hello, I have a 120gb SSD that I am using to capture HDMI uncompressed footage with my blackmagic intensity card. Each recording is about 15 minutes, which takes up about 110 gbs. I record about 10 times a week, so about 10 times a week, I am filling up and erasing my SSD. Should I keep using my SSD, or should I just record to my RAID setup and just use SSDs for read purposes, and not write?

Capture to a TB drive why not? cheap, fast enough, and ample capacity. Or use your array.
120GB is small, they tend to perform slower.
Ah, you are using a 2006 plus Mavericks too.
As to how much can an SSD take, A LOT, like 500TB
http://techreport.com/review/25889/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-500tb-update
As to your system, invest in a nice 256GB for the system.
Just learned - on MacRumors which is where I would think you would be - that the Samsung XP941 is bootable and works on every Mac, even our 1,1's. Just needs a $25 adapter. 1000MB/sec reads, and 700-800MB/sec writes when using 4x or 8x slot).
Aim for 50-75% use of an SSD though. And enable TRIM. Especially with all this going on. "Erase'' on an SSD is not the same as on a hdd, so I assume you are just reformatting and not really erasing (Apple terminology being what it is, when they use to still use "Initialize" in dialogues but had no such feature or command in Disk Utility).
Samsung 850 EVO 250 or even 1TB might interest you too.
Why are you not using your array?
You have quite a setup, GPU, upgraded processors (2,1 came with 8-core but not 1,1) and the 7970.

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