Samsung and Crucial for me. Because of
Ahh, that would defo do it alright.. (Totally off syscoin topic but).. We were looking into using for SQL server in one of the places I did some work. Not a good idea with current tech lvl..
Some SSDs are better than others. I've been running highly-loaded Oracle DBs on pairs of Plextor 256GB SSDs in a Linux/MD RAID1 for over a year - no problems at all (these are automatically SMART-checked every 5 minutes).