Yeah, sand >> rust, and I couldn't imagine switching back now. However, I now prefer to buy SSD models that have been available for more than 6 months. I've o

Yeah, sand >> rust, and I couldn't imagine switching back now. However, I now prefer to buy SSD models that have been available for more than 6 months. I've owned 6 SSDs and 4 of them failed (3 OCZ, BTW). I've seen some really crazy failure modes. I don't buy OCZ anymore :/ One SSD I had, it came from the store booting into a busted Win98 install. I managed to install an entire new OS, including a soft reboot. OK, OS install complete. After a hard reboot (power off), the drive would boot back up into the broken Win98 install. That was my first inkling of just how fundamentally different SSDs were internally compared to standard HDDs. I had trouble even coming up with a reasonable hypothesis to explain that failure mode. See e.g: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r25491097-Dell-Laptop-and-SSD-Time-warp-issue http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r25491097-Dell-Laptop-and-SS... It would now not surprise me to learn that other types of SSD failures could result in data loss you might not neccesarily notice at first. But definitely, backups to HDD. 256GB backs up fast, so it's not too bad.