SSD Reliability

[crowdx]

Unless you actually need 120GB of space, you could have gone with 2 64GB SSDs for around the same price. That way both would get the benefit

Well my OS and programs currently take about 80gig on each machine, so 64gb would not have been enough. I have to check to see if the laptop has a second sata port, it does have space for 2 drives but not sure about the ports. If it has the port I might buy a smaller drive for it and use a standard drive for storage (HD movies etc when travelling)

[Kromtor]

i had some crash issues with eve after switching to SSD, however, haven't had a single crash with WoW so it's probably not the fault of the drive like I had originally thought.
that being said I'd still recommend the newer kingstons over any others, they are proven reliable

[Noids]

2 x intel x25m 80GB in Raid 0 here and no problems at all. Considering a lot of people are using these in Raid 0 as well as the initial concerns about drive life, their reliability is remarkable. For what its worth I have had to RMA a new 3.5" mechanical drive 1 month after purchase as well as an oem 2.5" notebook mechanical drive, so these sorts of incidents are not specific to SSDs. With new controllers, better DIMMs and software/OS support, SSDs are becoming more reliable all the time and the only reason not to use one in a home system now would be cost IMO (which is also improving).

[Kromtor]

UGH
correction: I'm still crashing with my damn WD SSD's. garbage. fast garbage.

[Sajuuk]

wait, you actually read newegg reviews?

Just do your research ahead of time, find what you want, and get it.

[crowdx]

Well I have been running the kingston 128gig drive over the weekend and it is benchmarking close to what it was advertised as for it's read bench.
Overall I am pretty happy with it although, as others have commented, it is not as fast in real world as I might have expected, i.e. it is very fast but WoW still takes a little while to load, so not anywhere close to instant loads.
Thanks for all the help

[Catamer]

I've had mixed results.
It seems to work great if you have some kind of Raid going, the more the better.
I have a machine with 4 SSD and a caching raid controller and it smokes all of the time.

I also have tried using the same brand of SSD (Intel) on a laptop and a EEE-box and find they have moments where they lock up for a second or two under heavy loads. So for me it seems like if you only have one drive it's not that great and when you have several it smokes.