Two of the drives survived a year of continuous use, so even regular swapping is trivial.
Say you're using your computer 12 hours a day, half of that doing tasks where memory usage greatly exceeds your physical memory, and you're using 1/4 of the bandwidth of the drive to swap in/out (of which 1/2 are writes).
Under this quite heavy scenario, the writes will catch up to this endurance test after 32 years.
The speed, price & capacity of these drives are (at least for now) improving so quickly that by the time you wear one out, even with torturous use, replacing it will be trivial.
Cost per gigabyte has halved over the period of this test. So even when taking the drive that just died and using it for the most pathological use case imaginable, you'd be buying a $200 drive today, replacing it with a $100 drive in one year, $50 in two years, etc. Not a big deal.
The 100 "GB" OCZ Vertex LE in my laptop has 27,834 hours of power-on time. This is the only drive in the system, and it houses several always-on encrypted swap partitions. I'd be surprised if you could purchase a new one at this time, though. :P
I can get back to you in a little more than a year about the 750 "GB" Samsung 840 EVO in the lady's laptop, and 6->8 months on the Crucial M4 SSD in my gaming PC. :)
Say you're using your computer 12 hours a day, half of that doing tasks where memory usage greatly exceeds your physical memory, and you're using 1/4 of the bandwidth of the drive to swap in/out (of which 1/2 are writes).
Under this quite heavy scenario, the writes will catch up to this endurance test after 32 years.
The speed, price & capacity of these drives are (at least for now) improving so quickly that by the time you wear one out, even with torturous use, replacing it will be trivial.
Cost per gigabyte has halved over the period of this test. So even when taking the drive that just died and using it for the most pathological use case imaginable, you'd be buying a $200 drive today, replacing it with a $100 drive in one year, $50 in two years, etc. Not a big deal.