So I believe the reliability

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September 8, 2011 at 10:41 pm #5522
mpatnode

    So I believe the reliability issues around SSDs is completely overblown, and my own experience backs that up.

    I’ve had a 128GB Cosair P128 SSD as the ONLY drive in my HTPC now almost 2 years (Oct 09).   According to CrystalDiskInfo it has 6936 power-on-hours (289 days)  I assume this is less than a year because it’s not counting S3 sleep time. 

    I record ALL my shows to the SSD and then move them to my ReadyNAS NV+ after commercial processing via DVRMSToolkit.   I record roughly around 80G of shows a week (Aug total/4).

    System performs great, even with my ancient P35 motherboard.   My SSD health status is at 98%.

    The motherboard/CPU upgrade is next on my list, mostly to get better video processing speed since I use the HTPC to convert VCRs, and they could really benefit from more post-processing.   Though it would be nice to upgrade the entire disk I/O chain to 6Gb/s.   But I think I’ll upgrade the poor NV+ sparc before a new SSD.  Need to open it up and see if I can replace the motherboard with something a bit more modern.