@tomgrz - I've lived through the SSD transition. I started with storage on magnetic drums and moved through magnetic disks and thence into the modern era. (One of my wife's first jobs was selling DEC RK05 drives.)

I still believe that punched paper tape is the best form of storage - because it weighs less as you put data onto it. And you can read it by eye. 😉

Yeah, cheap SD and USB flash drives tend to be optimized for write-rarely. In our video work we've found that we can't record full raw 4K onto SD cards - they just aren't fast enough. There's a new format for flash cards that is quite expensive, but it is fast. We never overwrite a video take, so we don't stress the write-cycles on our cards.

(BTW, in our file servers we still use spinning drives - the latest ones we use from Seagate are waaaay heavy. And you have to let them spin down for at least 30 seconds before pulling 'em out of the rack else they want to precess you around the room.)

Tesla has USB sockets into which one plugs either a flash drive or a USB/SSD. The car is has something like six cameras that are always recording when driving and when triggered when parked. The storage always is hot to the touch after a long drive. Drives would often die. Eventually Samsung and others came out with USB flash drives and SD cards designed to take that kind of pounding (they still get rather warm to the touch.)

Tesla really needs to improve its USB system. (The first clue that I had that Tesla's main computer uses Linux is when I found that they like EXT-4 file systems.)

We build network test gear. All of it has some sort of storage. We gone from spinning drives, through Seagate's "hybrid" drives, and thence onto solid state in various flavors.

I've had a lot of grief and a lot of burned-out solid-state storage. We long ago learned to tune operating systems to minimize writes - like turning off "atime" (access time) recording on files. That was el-paino-in-el-butto so we are very happy that storage has gotten to the point where we don't worry about that too much any more.

We began with compact flash - and learned to avoid the multi-cell versions because they died after a few hundred erasures/rewrites. So we standardized on "industrial" single cell flash - hard to get and expensive. Then along came storage designed more as real disk drives, in our case in M-SATA format and then M.2. The ones we were getting a few years back would get slower and slower and slower (write speed) over time. They seem much better these days. We haven't burned out a drive in more than a year.

(BTW, I want to strangle whoever designed the screw for M.2 - I've had to fish out too many of those tiny screws that fell into a motherboard when trying to get that screw started. At least there are now captive plastic plug alternatives.)