I've gone beyond the norm. I was a tester for some engineers who were designing them back in the '90s.
They don't make them today like they used to back then. But, they do have about 4x the capacity of the ones we were playing with at the time.
Align them, reserve some unused space (about 20% of total capacity set aside), trim, bios correct, no indexing, etc.
What's killing them is the systems are on 22 hours a day if not all 24 hours and the continuous multithread reads and writes and erases.
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in addition to the built in 256MB cache, I have an external DDR5 RAM cache of 2GB, which helps with some of the wear.
Have you followed the norms for setting them up? Have a few myself and they run fine.
Just make sure you don't ever fill them up.
When they initially started coming out, they did kinda suck alright. (Looking at you here OCZ)
They don't make them today like they used to back then. But, they do have about 4x the capacity of the ones we were playing with at the time.
Align them, reserve some unused space (about 20% of total capacity set aside), trim, bios correct, no indexing, etc.
What's killing them is the systems are on 22 hours a day if not all 24 hours and the continuous multithread reads and writes and erases.
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in addition to the built in 256MB cache, I have an external DDR5 RAM cache of 2GB, which helps with some of the wear.
My SSDs pretty much HAVE been disposable. I've destroyed over a dozen in the past 4 months. It's beginning to kinda suck.
I can relate to that! Running a 1gb ssd here also. I can't wait for the price of the ssd's to drop to the point where they are disposable. 
Have you followed the norms for setting them up? Have a few myself and they run fine.
Just make sure you don't ever fill them up.
When they initially started coming out, they did kinda suck alright. (Looking at you here OCZ)