OCZ Vertex Drives

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I'm not worried about the longterm life of the drive. My reasoning is that once I'm finished benchmarking etc I'll have it set up with less writes than any average user, and there will be something better along in a couple of years. I expect that defrag tools will catch up reasonably quickly on SSD and we'll have tools inside Windows to reclaim lost performance. A second 60GB drive will be added soonish,

The drive does what it's supposed to though, it's fast and silent.

Agreed, a storm in a tea cup. Same thing with degradation, but I think it was necessary to look into it to put statements being made about Intel drives being crippled into context. It's somewhat ironic that it has transpired that it's the same issue with the Vertex.