SSDs Have High Failure Rate?

well yes that addresses the performance but not the reliability issue.........

I would tend to agree with you on the RAID -- really what is stopping you from RAID 5; you get performance AND reliability this way. SSD still has a ways to go in terms of both but just the fact that we are talking about it alone shows that SSD is obviously a player in the "storage" game :)

well im basing the raptor observation off friends who have gotting them  they have never had a problem the oldest one out of the group is only over 1.5 years old but if ssd are failing at this rate it would seem to me the raptor as more realible though i have never seen a ssd so you could be enterly right

Some people compared the newest Seagate 7200.11 drives with the Raptor and they said it does pretty well regarding the performance compared to the Raptor.So if you put 2 Seagates in Raid,I guess you get a much better performance,more storage space than a single Raptor 

THIS 20% TO 30% FAILURE RATE HAS ALREADY BEEN CONFIRMED A BOGUS CLAIM made by some uninformed "journalist". SSD's are actually very reliable instead.

THIS 20% TO 30% FAILURE RATE HAS ALREADY BEEN CONFIRMED A BOGUS CLAIM made by some uninformed "journalist". SSD's are actually very reliable instead.