one of my SSD's died

[Zairyn Arsyn]

one of my SSDs died today, it was the one i boot from.

contacted my system builder about a replacement, waiting for a reply.

the good news most of my other important files (objects,scene tgds, images, music, etc, etc) are safe on one of the separate drives

[Dune]

I though these SSD's were virtually unbreakable 

[Tangled-Universe]

I though these SSD's were virtually unbreakable 

Oh no, in contrary, if they go they go without a warning.
With normal drives you often run into small problems, hangs, noises and such which hint that your drive may have had it's best time.
However, SSD's just go in a blink.

Intel has a proven record for delivering some of the most stable SSD's, so that's why I have one.
It's more expensive than a OCZ Vertex 3 and also slower (relatively, since it's still bloody fast compared to a conventional drive), but the controller firmware of the latest OCZ models often cause problems/crashes/failures/broken SSD's.

Still, all my creative stuff and stuff that matters is on the normal drive and I only use the SSD for OS and software.

[digitalis99]

I agree.  I have a total of about 20 OCZ drives between a variety of systems I own, and most of them have been bulletproof.  When they have failed (2 so far), they've done so abruptly.  I haven't seen a media failure yet, it's always been in the disk controller.

I actually have 4 of the Vertex 2's in a RAID0 stripe on my primary workstation.  Of course, I back that machine up every hour.

Recently, I switched to using the Agility 3's for new systems.  They are flat out amazing from every perspective.  I'm sure the Intel's are great drives, I just never found one that had the right price/performance ratio for me.

[Zairyn Arsyn]

update

the SSD was'nt dead yet after all, i tried plugging the sata cable into another connector
booted it up, changed the boot order in the efi bios, system started up like it normally does.

I though these SSD's were virtually unbreakable  

oh yeah, there breakable alright, get a sledgehammer, or a shotgun, that will kill em'

(not that i tried that)