I'm using SSDs in a handful of QA and staging VM servers. As a consequence, VMs are SCREAMING FAST running on SSD. As a further consequence, I have had 4/6 SSD

I'm using SSDs in a handful of QA and staging VM servers. As a consequence, VMs are SCREAMING FAST running on SSD. As a further consequence, I have had 4/6 SSD drives fail. Use RAID. Don't buy A-DATA SSDs. (using ext4, Linux 2.6.35)