![]() The estimates that I’ve heard from pundits with no vested interest are 7-10 years under a fairly steady load. When I’ve returned failed mechanical drives I’ve always found the service prompt and without question, so I hope the same applies here. The drives have a three year warranty, so I guess the manufacturers are relatively confident in their sticking power. I’ve only had the thing installed for three months though, so who knows. I’ve read the reviews and heard that people have had problems, but from personal experience so far so good. ![]() Trim enabler changes that for you without you having to get your paws mucky in Terminal. Mac only allows it’s own brand of hard-drives to have Trim enabled. If you’re putting one in a Mac, you need to make sure to get hold of Trim Enabler. I have a 240GB OCZ Vertex III working as a dedicated disk cache for Ae. Also worried that these have a limited number of reads/writes and again it could hit that mark and die without warning. And since there’s no moving parts, there’s usually very little warning that it’s about to go. With some saying their drive just crapped out after a few months. But I’m also seeing a lot of people complaining about stability. I’m seeing some great reviews in terms of speed. So I’ve been thinking about making the switch to SSD and using a regular drive as more of a larger storage device. I’ve got my workhorse PC up and running, and the drive has been clicking recently, so I’m backing stuff up just in case it decides to die on me. But I don’t know anyone personally that uses an SSD as their primary drive on a workstation. Hey guys, just writing to ask if any of you have any thoughts/opinions on using an SSD as your primary drive for your workstation? I know quite a few people that have made the switch on their laptops, and in most cases these are their main computers.
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