I am using SAN DISK SSDs as my Boot drive in four of my machines at home. In fact, my master has 8 regular hard drives along with 6 SSDs, a little more than 25 TB total.
I have never had any problem with any SSD yet. My HTPC has the same number of hard drives but only 1 SSD for the boot drive. Every hard drive is replicated (exactly the same content wise) on both machines.
From what I’ve read, when a SSD fails, except for a total failure of the controller, it usually only fails with a write due to excessive writes being performed for a long time. Even when it can’t find good space to write new data, all previously written data remains readable.
One should never do a REGULAR defrag on a SSD but should us a program such as Perfect Disk if their operating is incapable of fully utilizing the TRIM command.
I highly recommend Perfect Disk even though there are other products available which work as well. It is best to let your operating system (OS) and motherboard handle the SSD defrag if they are capable.
Xlent response. Very informative, gives me almost all I need.
Thanks!