SSDs still seem to have a bunch of nasty failure cases. Right now, for production use I'm not sure I'd trust the things for reliable storage. As a fast cache fo

SSDs still seem to have a bunch of nasty failure cases. Right now, for production use I'm not sure I'd trust the things for reliable storage. As a fast cache for spinning rust? Definitely. As my only live copy, even duplicated in a RAID? Hmm. Not even Intel SSDs are immune: One of the Debian developers has reported that the SSDs shipped in the latest Thinkpads die if you try and construct an encrypted filesystem on them. Somehow they corrupt themselves during the initial write of random data to the disk. (Interesting that these SSDs died whilst under high write load too: is this a particular weak point for some reason?)