As for registering a gHacks account, I must be blind; I can’t find a registration link or form… !?

(I once had to explain to my kid why I say ‘_roll_ down your window’ in a car with electric windows…)

Solid State Drive perhaps?

For example, a test conducted with a 64 GB SSD with 2.000.000 write cycles had the result that it would take 51 years of writing data on that disk in full speed before it would die.

Most Solid State Disks have between 1000000 and 5000000 write cycles nowadays.

http://www.storagesearch.com/ssdmyths-endurance.html

Below is a short video by Samsung comparing Solid State Disk and HDD performance.

http://www.samsungssd.com/video/performance.html

Limited write cycles. Typical Flash storage will typically wear out after 100,000-300,000 write cycles, while high endurance Flash storage is often marketed with endurance of 1–5 million write cycles (many log files, file allocation tables, and other commonly used parts of the file system exceed this over the lifetime of a computer). Special file systems or firmware designs can mitigate this problem by spreading writes over the entire device, rather than rewriting files in place.