Originally Posted by
mudski
They are getting cheaper by the day now Drew. A 120 ssd can be had for around 80$. The best way for desktop pcs is to run an sad for your operating system and some of the programs you use a lot, then another old Gen drive for everything else. I run two 128gb ssd's in raid 0 ( 2 drive mirrored to run together for speed purposes only) for my operating system, another two 240gb ssd's in raid 0 to store my games then an old Gen hard drive of 2tb for all my prOn storage :)
Raid 0 has zero redundancy so if one of the two ssd's fail, you lose the lot of both drives. If you run large storage systems, what raid can offer, not raid zero though, for redundancy is really good. My NAS, for instance. Has four 4tb drives running raid. It has a fifth drive sitting there so if one dies on me, it will switch over to the spare drive and rebuild the lost data to that drive.
Sorry for getting off topic there. As for them failing quicker, it's like anything, you get what you pay for I suppose. I haven't had an ssd fail on me yet and I have been using them since the first 20gb ssd was released and it was 150$. I still have that sad too.