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Not so sure about that, two out of the three SSDs I first used where Intel's second generation.. two of them went bad about a year in... I've used Corsair, Crucial and Samsung since... other than the two intels, out of about 12 drives since, I have only had one go bad (just about doa, died 2 hrs in).

It's pretty much conjecture... I will say that I was pretty disappointed in a lot of the seagate 7200 3tb drives I bought 3 years ago.. out of 12, 3 are now dead under moderate use... (I bought in different batches from different vendors for teh same model).