SSD Life Span

Are the SSD's supplied in Apple iMacs produced in early 2012 expected to have a shorter life span than standard mechanical HD's?  If so, can anything be done to extend their effective lives?

No one knows at this point. SSDs have come a long way and I personally expect them to last longer then the mechanical spinning HDDs.
I guess the only way to tell is to setup 10+ SSDs and 10+ Spinning HDD and then Read and Write data from/to them over and over for days, years until they start to fail. Then do a statistical analysis of the time it took all drives to fail.

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