Hi ghostship2,

I know what you mean. As far as I know early SSD generations suffered from more or less experimental firmware, bad controllers, early stage of cell technology, non exitant garbage collection, etc.. Windows7 before SP1 did not recognize SSDs correctly and was not TRIM aware. It left defragmentation on which caused alot of unwanted writes etc. Windows XP did the partition alignment wrong, which made the SSDs slow (and in some cases HDDs as well) and so on and so on. I can imagine that the shop you worked for had to deal with complaints. I only wanted to point out, that the current state of the SSD technology and Windows improments gave us a situation where an avarage user could use an SSD without to frear that it will be dead after a short time (the better products even come with a software that does the Windows settings check automatically). Regarding the know how you mentioned, I guess the people here on Renderosity are a little tech addicted (hey, they got Poser to work). I also checked the Rendo homepage of the OP before I posted. There he writes that he is a computer administrator in his job. Because he directly asked about experiance with SSDs I answered that my and our companies one is very postive (while all SSDs we ever bought are still running, we had to replace two notebook HDDs because of head crash).