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Two OCZ Vertex 2E's 120GB (separate machines). Had both for 6 months and both are working reliably with no signs of problems or performance degradation.
Not had a single failure so far.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227...
Of the 425 ratings, 17% are 1-star ratings, based almost entirely on a short-term failure measured in < 6 months. That's not to say the Vertex 2 as a whole has a failure rate that high (this is the vocal minority, after all), but it should at least help put some of the nay-sayers in perspective.
I was right. Everyone was right. It's still running now, without issue, and I enjoy 8 second boot times with Windows 7 and virtually instantaneous-launch applications. Well worth the price. I regularly backup my data but it's nice to know that if it failed today I could buy a replacement from NewEgg for nearly half the price and probably better performance.
I'm using a RAID0 of two Intel 160 GB multi-level cells. One I bought in the middle of 2009, one at the end of 2009. Both are under constant use (that raid is the only drive in my development machine) and they run fine so far. At home I'm running two 256GB multi-level SSDs also from Intel, also in a RAID0. I bought them last December after having one Corsair SSD in a previous RAID0 attempt constantly losing some data…
This is off topic, but isn't Dropbox essentially a backup service? Also, having your important files in git isn't really helpful unless you git repo is remotely stored and backup up. For your sake I hope it is.
I had been under the impression that when SSD drives die, write operations start failing but existing data is still readable. Is this wrong?
There's nothing like seeing 6 kvm virtual machines boot up in seconds to remind you that they're damn fast on reads.