Because of my recent experience with the 128 gig ssd that had gone silent....I have decided to give up on them. I re-installed my Ivory II program on a 320 gig hard drive that I had left over from my old computer. The piano samples take a few seconds to load but they play fine once loaded. Synthogy is coming out with another piano sample package to go along with the current Ivory II collection called the American Concert Grand. This new one is 50+ gigs so I'd need to buy a 160 gig ssd to hold it all. They are just too expensive, and I'm not going to put out that kind of money and watch the new drive go dead again. The regular hard drives are much more dependable.
 
My other 64 gig ssd that is hosting my East West Gold Symphonic Orchestra program is working fine, so I'll leave that be for now. Once the ssd fails though, I'll be putting the program on to my 320 gig sample drive.
 
SSD's are nice when they are working but totally useless when they fail. Maybe I'll come back after 5 or 10 years of developement.

I'm seeing that it "looks" preferred to be used as the C drive....but what are really the advantages?

They don't seem big enough to hold anything else at this point, unless it's just a single VSTi library or such.  Won't hold several, for sure of the biggies.

The big advatage is quick loading of samples, but that doesn't justify the cost, especially when they go dead after a month or two of being purchased.

EXACTLY! I tried using mine for my main drive, but it kept crashing my install. So now I use it as a drive for my SampleTank sound library. I still have them backed up on my back up drives, but for on the road playback it works.

I haven't had any failures with my SSD's and they are now a couple years old.  I had a regular hard drive fail recently though.  I use Intel SSD's.  The performance gains on the SSD's are quite large especially with libraries such as LA Scoring Strings.  I haven't had to freeze tracks since putting LASS on a SSD.

BTW, I have 4 sets of laptops with 22 laptops in each one plus another 10 laptops in my lab and they all have Intel SSD's.  They are all almost 3 years old and not a single SSD failure.  I have had a few system boards die!

Jim

Given that many people report success with either Intel or Crucial M4 SSD's, but many problems with OCZ...

What brand is the failed drive?

OCZ

I have been using the Samsung 830's without issue, so far.

Desktop - 128GB ssd for OS, 2-128GB and a 512GB ssd's for sample libraries.
Laptop - 256 ssd for OS, 512 ssd for samples.

The difference between the ssd's vs. hdd's were like night and day for me.

I curious about the brand you're having problems with also. Hate to see you lose performance due to a bad experience with a problem brand.

Hope you get it sorted.

Kind regards,
Rick

Crucial M4's in two machines. No problems so far.

Well the store is going to get me a new one, but the damage is done. I can't trust them. One day it works great the next day, nothing.