Solid state hard drive question

[Slynk]

Reading data doesn't cut away from the life of the drive, only writing, but I don't see how an MMO (or at least I don't see how this one) does massive amounts of writing for this to be a factor?

Typically games like this have a disk cache for things like character models (since they are dynamically generated) as well as environment caches (since they are so large.) Video games have a strict memory limit to uphold and this is bypassed by disk caching.