[threedaymonk]

> The thing bricked itself due to a firmware bug in less than 12 months.

Was it an OCZ, by any chance? The exact same thing happened to me. I scrupulously avoided unnecessary wear, disabled swap (though I've been disabling swap for years), mounted /tmp on a RAM disk, and the accurs't thing killed itself stone dead waking from sleep due to a firmware bug.

I also replaced it with a Samsung, as it happens.

[ryanklee]

> My first Intel (320) drive

[threedaymonk]

Oh, that's embarrassing! I read that, but somehow convinced myself that it was part of another comment.