First Pc Build - Thoughts?

[jrm]

It's a Cisco 7970 - I'm a sysadmin/netadmin/programmer. I have an Asterisk virtual server here, multiple VOIP lines coming in, etc.

[R31Nismoid]

trust me Ash they are, but 3 dead OCZ drives out of the 20 or so in circulation in and out of the office in peoples home pc's etc dosen't really fill me with confidence vs 0 dead raptors

They aren't if they are dying/corrupting. And this is the major issue I have and the reason I've not upgraded.

Reading some reviews that actually do some proper testing and investigations, most of the feedback does not instill me with a great deal of confidence.

No doubt they are faster etc, well aware of that - but losing data is a PIA, rebuilding the machine, intermittent issues... None of this I've ever had with HDD's, and I've got 10 running 24x7 and have for years.

[bozodos]

it's only the Sandforce ones that are problematic, our first batch of Latitudes with the OEM Samsung ones are solid as rocks, despite being imaged multiple times and used quite a lot.

From what I've read, data is actually safer on SSD than mechanical disk

[oweban]

Yep, if an SSD hits its end-life, you can still read the data off it. So while it doesn't "work" anymore, you're still able to whack it in another machine and do a clone or file transfer.