Quote - SSDs are nice when they work, great for speeding up a system, and a sure fire way to loose everything when they fail. When a hard drive goes bad, most of the time you can still recover the information. When an SSD goes bad, chances of recovering info are slim to none. I used them in the past, and went back to ram drives. I can wait 15 more seconds for it to boot, knowing that it is going to boot. And a ram drive for temp/swap usage still outruns the fastest SSDs. You can also write to ram "billions and billions of times" borrowing Dr. Sagans famous line. You can write to an SSD Nand gate 10,000 times max. Chances are good that the Nand write limitation is not in the spec sheet for the SSD drive. But the limitation is there, and you will get to that limitation......

And THAT, sir, says all one needs to know about SSD drives ;)  Ran drive is free and much much faster.. I'll have to revisit that one again..

Thanks for the great info, much appreciated!