Once again, FLASH based tech is absolutely fabulous.

But, it does physically wear out over time - that’s the physics of the pup. And there is nothing inherent to FLASH that will warn of imminent failure, so cover your *** big time. Using some sort of RAID 1+0 / RAID 0+1 sounds like a winner to me in this case - it has the lowest number of logical reads & writes that are implemented at the RAID level compared to the other RAID types. And keep a spare on the shelf.

Otherwise get a non-FLASH based SSD (10x the price or so)

🙂 Brad

P.S.:

I took a look at the OCZ drive specs at http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/solid-state-drives/pci-express/revodrive/ocz-revodrive-pci-express-ssd-.html

It is sorta weird to me that a solid-state component manufacturer cites MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) at 2,000,000 hours (288+ years) and the limited warranty is 3 years (26,280 hours or 1.3% of MTBF).