Digital Home Thoughts: How Do You Solve A Problem Called SSD?

"If you look at the SSD market today, you’d assume that it’s very different from what it was just six months ago when the X25-M launched. People are worried that the Intel drive has issues with degrading performance over time. Some vendors are now shipping “revised” JMicron drives with multiple controllers, supposedly fixing all of the problems I talked about last year."

AnandTech writes up an interesting article that takes a peek into the underlying issues of the whole SSD performance drop over time brouhaha and how newer generation SSDs are working to resolve it. The unfortunate reality is owing to the way in which SSDs work, the performance drop is a fact of life and cannot be avoided, though it can be mitigated to an extent. Even with several manufacturers working hard on the issue, Intel still remains top dog, commanding top prices, but the other brands do provide value, as long as you're willing to wait a few more seconds for that game/application/picture you wouldn't want your mom to see load.