SSD Reliability

[crowdx]

Hi all,
so I am thinking of taking the plunge and buying an SSD drive for my main system. When I look on Newegg etc I am seeing a lot of drive failures. How has people's experience been here? I am thinking of going for a 120 gig and do a full OS install plus WoW on it.
Are SSDs reliable enough to run everything off it?

[Ughmahedhurtz]

No issues here. Running dual Kingston SSDNow V-series (with the Intel-licensed controllers) in RAID-0 on Win7, including my OS. Switched over about, oh, 4 months or so ago.

[Kris1234]

no issues with my intel ssd either. and I must say the experience was like changing from dial-up to dsl

[outdrsyguy1]

my intel's been fine for over a year now. the change was as kris1234 described, like going from dial up to dsl.

[tallone2]

used both intel and ocz (vertex) ssd drives for OS and game drives in my desktop and laptop, i got spoiled with the desktop and had to update the laptop also.

[Fef]

I had a 60GB OCZ Vertex for something like a year and a half. It was first used on my WoW boxing drive with the game and Vista 64 on. Now it is my Mac OS system drive. No issues at all.

I also had a 80GB X25 Intel for some 2 month, it took the place of the Vertex, running WoW under Windows 7. No issues neither.

[Ualaa]

I'm using a Patriot Torq 64GB SSD.
Warcraft is the only thing on the drive.
Have had it for over a year now, under Vista 64-bit (no Trim command), and it hasn't slowed down at all.

Not mind-blowingly faster than my 150GB Raptor entering game, but still faster; once in the game, zoning from spells or boats is virtually instant instead of a 3-4 seconds.

[daanji]

About a year ago I purchased a 120 GB OCZ Vertex Sata II.

In October, the drive completely failed. I RMAed the device with OCZ, but that process took about a month to complete.

Since I wanted to get my system up and running again, I bought 2 Kingston 64GB SSD and put them in RAID0.

This configuration was even faster.

OCZ 120 GB

200 MB / s read and write

Dual Kingston 64 GB in RAID 0

443 MB / s read
367 MB / s writes

The Kingstons were cheaper too! They have worked flawlessly for the last 3 months.


Since then, I received my replacement drive from OCZ, which has worked fine so far.

[crowdx]

Well I took the plunge and bought this drive
http://www.frys.com/product/6475582?...H:MAIN_RSLT_PG
now the question is whether to install on my desktop or my laptop. My initial idea was my desktop but now I am also thinking of doing a fresh laptop install with it.

[daanji]

Well I took the plunge and bought this drive
http://www.frys.com/product/6475582?...H:MAIN_RSLT_PG
now the question is whether to install on my desktop or my laptop. My initial idea was my desktop but now I am also thinking of doing a fresh laptop install with it.

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