http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-reliability-failure-rate,2923.html The material quality is rated to last decades, even under 10GB/day+ load. I wonder how that holds any truth fetching from the same redundant file clusters, hundreds of times a day, though.
Fetching data has absolutely no effect on lifetime of cells. You can read from a drive as many times as you want, the lifetime only has to do with writes to a cell. Reading from the same cluster would do nothing, and it is impossible to write to the same cluster hundreds of times a day as the wear leveling would simply write the data to a new cell location and mark to old location as ready to be collected during a GC sweep. Also, Intel 320 series and G2 drives dont have that bug Tom's is talking about, that was fixed a while ago. And Crucial only has issues with Sandy Bridge systems from what I remember. Youll also notice Samsung is the only manufacturer of SSD chipsets not on that list of companies with problems
Somehow, even as bad as it was, the return rates were super low: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-reliability-failure-rate,2923-3.html BTW, I ended up using the Corsair Force GT with the P8P67 Sandy Bridge platform (your old set, actually) and it works great, lol. Albeit, I had to set it up using the Intel P67 SATA chipset and not the Marvell driver controller. It all totally works but the Marvell controller is/was still a no-go.
The Marvel controller isnt a good idea for a SSD anyway as it adds too much latency. That defeats the whole purpose of a SSD.
The drive, firmware, all of it was undetectable. You mean to tell me that it's slow even when it works, too?? I wouldn't be surprised if Asus dropped them altogether. At least Asus had enough sense to diversify, even if the Rev. 1 failed...
Its slow for a SSD. The marvel chipset has a minimum latency of like 5ms, the Intel minimum latency is .05ms. It works well for DVD drives and HDDs but not for a SSD. Always use the Intel ports for a solid state drive. Same goes for AMD platforms with their add in chipsets, always connect a SSD to the southbridge ports.