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I've been "playing" around with SSD drives for a few months now. If you read the reviews on Newegg (www.newegg.com) people report many different types of problems. I've experienced the "install the OS and after a few re-boots the drive fails". A re-install usually gets it up and running. I have one drive that I've been using pretty regularly for about 5 months. Last night, after doing a bunch of printed circuit board work, it crashed. System doesn't even "see" it. Of course I have the files backed-up but that still meant I lost an evenings worth of work (editing Gerber files, nothing that can't be re-done in a few hours). Anyway, as much as I like the things (fast, fast, fast) I'm going to switch back to a standard HD and use these things as "scratch" disks until such a time that I see reviews that they are "better" than they are now. If you're using one as a "main" drive I'd recommend doing a nightly backup (I do a weekly right now, switching to nightly ).

Which brand is your ssd? Or maybe it's independent from the brand and SSDs are inherently not trustworthy? I am thinking about building a new workstation and was planning to include one of those as main drive.

I have three OCZ Vertex and one Crucial. The one that just failed is a Vertex. These are all 64M drives. I've been very happy with the speed increases in both WinXP x32 and Win7 x64. I'm really on the fence about these things right now; everything was going along fine and then - splat- dead. At least with platter drives in the past, if the OS crashed you could usually install it as a slave and retrieve the files. I tried that with this one and as I said, the system doesn't even see it.

i ran 2 32GB intel x25e in raid 0 (intel mainboard controller) for 3 years as OS drive (xp64) and PS scratch disk.

never had any problems that were drive related. no data loss, despite the raid 0 and brutal paging.

in my new machine i have been very unlucky with the purchase of two patriot wildfire, these have a BSOD issue.
replaced with an intel 320, having done some heavy jobs on the machine, i can say it is running really good.


so my tip: intel

Re: Intel. Just saw this come across the wire: http://www2.electronicproducts.com/Budg ... -html.aspx

hmmm... the 330 uses sand-force controller.. tricky stuff..
and the 320 comes with 5 years warranty the new 330 with 3 only.

why that, i don't know, but i'd read some reviews...

anyway, they like it:

http://www.storagereview.com/intel_ssd_330_review