imo 3 years is ok.
1 more thing, i search google but cant find any info regarding ssd price trends. like u said ssd is quite young in the market. but i dont want to wait 5 years until ssd is dirt cheap, before i can buy ths thing. so i wanna know whether the ssd price will drop significantly early next year or not.

wah, this really scares me. the stated mtbf is 1.2 million hours but i've heard the failure rate for a drive is 0.5% which is pretty high.

Jus get oem intel fr owikh la, retail is way expensive n I don see any reason ssd will fail with proper use after a period of time

My Intel X18-M 160GB also had exactly the same issue with you, and the SSD is dead, A smart attribute 184 (B8) error indicates End-to-End error, from the Intel communities forum, it is because of the bad cache in the SSD controller.

Is your SSD bought from the lowyat forum seller which sell OEM Intel SSD at very cheap price? I got my Intel SSD 160GB at RM350, I thought it was a good deal, now I realized again cheap stuff doesn't come with quality. the cheap OEM SSD should be a much inferior version that fail easily.

Wanna ask is SSD are a good buy nowadays? coz in my personal view, SSD nowadays is freaking expensive and Storage size is sooooo small...Btw do u guys think the price will drop next year Q1 or Q2? because i was thinking to get one of those into my rig....now The seller saying my setup is bonenecking because of the HDD..=.=

there is a deal going on this website, which ends by the end of the day. the price is $149.99, but it gives a $79.99 mail in rebate, which makes it $70.00   

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...&Tpk=20-167-047

i know its super worth it but this is my first ssd and i dont quite know which brand too choose. so far based on customer reviews on these stores, crucial has the best rating, is intel on par with crucial? in terms on quality and reliability.

thanks