My estimate included having BT downloading to the C drive.

At 5 Mbps, you could potentially download 50 GB a day. SSDs are usually rated for 3,000 p/e cycles (or writes). So for a 64GB SSD, I assume you consume 1 p/e cycle per day (writing 50GB of downloads), which gives you 8.2 years. But most SSDs typically last for much longer than their rated p/e cycles and most users can't actually use that kind of performance, so hitting past 10 years isn't that much of a stretch. Satisfied now?

Most SSDs have only 3 years warranty. But prices are also dropping quite rapidly, so they should be a lot more affordable in three to five years time.
As a gamer, SSDs are only useful in installing games, loading games and loading maps.

As a FRAPs user, it would be useful for writing the huge video files to the drive.

But both the 520 and 320 prices are a bit expensive for my taste as there are cheaper options. Like Intel's 330 120GB which goes at RM449 at most retail places. You should be able to find better offers through the online traders that we have here as well.

I have had five HDDs that needed to be woken up, serially, before the computer could shutdown and it take much less than five minutes. Maybe there was another reason or problem. Checking your HDDs SMART statuses might reveal a clue, or not.

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Added on May 24, 2012, 9:25 pm
The older smaller capacity and slower SSDs have better P/E cycle counts, some reaching as high as 5,000. The newer, larger capacity, cheaper and faster SSDs are much more fragile, and they keep on getting more fragile for every new generation. Choose your poison. 

To be honest, normal users don't need to worry about the write lifespan. Just pick the SSD that you are comfortable with. I would recommend any cheap, reliable and large capacity SSD that fits the budget to anyone. Please don't be tempted by the high performance SSDs because even the cheap budget SSDs are still extremely fast when compared to HDDs. It is difficult to tell if you have a performance SSD or a budget SSD by feel alone, unless you benchmark it.

Which models were these SSDs?

Those articles are quite obsoleted now. You won't find those items in the retail market now as they're EOLed a while ago. And you have to be careful about what you hear from other people. They may simply be repeating year old news that may be quite untrue now.

I am currently using a budget-class Kingston SSD bought in late 2009 that will see its third birthday by the end of this year and it is still going strong. I have heavily used it, including BT downloads. Barring external interference, I am fairly sure that it will live for another few more years.
Intel has apparently solved their SandForce-controller problems via their own custom firmware. While the other manufacturers using SandForce should have received most of the patches by now via SandForce, I do not know for sure. In any case, there has been little noise about SandForce SSDs failing or BSODing for many months now.

All my applications are installed on the SSD, but most games are in a HDD. When I download via BT, I save them to my SSD first and then move the completed downloads to their final locations in the HDDs.

The reason I do this is because my games rarely improve when installed to my SSD. And also so that my HDDs aren't abused by doing a lot of random writes. HDDs are fragile, SSDs are not. At least in my experience.

all my BT downloads r straight saved to my wd green hdd.. so far so good

btw guys i just received my vertex4 and will post the picture here soon =)

so thats why my best choice is vertex4 and i've never used an ssd before. gona test it tonight with only game loading and starting up/scrolling big sized videos

intel 330 will do.
went to lowyat plaza today for my 520 RMA, asked best price for 330 120gb @2nd floor, RM355. 

Price falls again?!

i don't think you can feel much different. I have Ocz and M4. Speed wise  i can't feel much different but M$ is more stable

Aw that's too sweet for new buyers and too bitter for past buyer weeks ago