So far, I can tell from my experience that many SSD fail catastrophically and randomly. Many SSD controllers and/or firmware lack reliability, and crash under h

So far, I can tell from my experience that many SSD fail catastrophically and randomly. Many SSD controllers and/or firmware lack reliability, and crash under heavy load (the drive disappears, then comes back after a power-cycle); some corrupt data randomly; and even sticking to well known and reputable brand and model (think Intel X25) isn't completely safe - on a large bunch some inexplicably fail after only a short while. I think that SSDs are great, but aren't yet as reliable as spinning rust, the standard deviation being really high. For now I heavily "burn" SSDs before putting them in production, and use them in RAID only. However of all the pains SSDs give me, I never had an unrecoverable read error so far, even on 3 years old 16GB M-TRON SSDs.