I’ve bought a number of solid state drives and I’ve had to return most of them due to problems.  I’ve taken from that experience that a lot of the manufacturers don’t quite know what they are doing yet.  There are plenty of places on the internet you can read about the bugs in many of the released drives.  I’m hoping the acquisition of Indilinx by OCZ and SandForce by LSI will improve the reliability of drives based on those controllers.  However, my SSD purchases have been narrowing to Crucial who’s RealSSD C300 and M4 have been far more reliable than average and extremely well performing.  A recent review of the OCZ Octane drive shows the Crucial M4 as one of the better drives in server performance:

• http://techreport.com/articles.x/22078/8