[microtonal]

SSD's are not there yet, if you ask me. I've been running on a custom SSD on my Mac mini, with restarts required once daily after crashing (mostly due to chrome). A dozen friends of mine also had a buggy experience with SSDs. They are super fast, I mean. But not so reliable at this point in time.

There are some ugly SSDs out there with firmware problems (e.g. some people have reported problems with OCZ). I have been using different SSDs for three years (Apple branded, Samsung, and Intel) and I never had any problem or bugs. In fact, since Apple uses Samsung themselves, I have also used Trim Enabler without problems.

[slowdown]

You are talking based on your own experience. I am talking based on mine and 12 others I know of. No offence, but you get the point, right? :)

[microtonal]

That's the whole point of my comment. It's anecdotical evidence and you'll find as many people having the opposite experience (ie. me).

If you look at the actual failure rate, it's well known that the failure rates of SSDs are well below those of HDDs:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2319966

(With the notable exception of the aforementioned brand.)

[foobarbazqux]

The thing about personal experience is that you can't really quantify it. His 3 anecdotes (3 SSDs over 3 years) are just as valid as your 13 anecdotes.

[casperc]

I was under the impression that OSX already supported trim. Is that not the case, or is it only for certain models?

[microtonal]

Trim is only enabled by OS X on Apple-branded SSDs.