I'm still a little wary of the reliability of these drives. I think it's prudent to wait at least another half-year. It isn't the long-term lifetime of the memory itself, which is fine. It's the tendency of the drives to be dead within a couple months.
Go to newegg and sort the reviews by date on some of the most popular ones.
Smart move. I got bit last Dec with my 80gb Intel X25m completely crapping out on me. The drive stopped being recognized and despite a week of troubleshooting, and trying to restore, it was completely lost.
However, the next drive I bought was an 80gb Intel X25m. The speed difference of these drives are truly amazing
Buy yeah, I now back up my drive to an external disk.
Do you know how they're breaking down? Part of the great promise of SSDs is that they can degrade gradually, rather than suddenly failing like spinning-platter hard drives. Is there a fundamental problem with that vision, or are the early SSDs just a little flaky?
Go to newegg and sort the reviews by date on some of the most popular ones.