I've never had a problem with an SSD. Not in my desktop at home for more than 2 years, not in my new laptop (now at home and being used to post this), not on any of the 3 mac minis I have appropriated from work, not on the iMac on my desk at work (which runs Windows, muhahahahaha). I have had lots of problems with HDDs in the past. I've lost may a system to those.
Nothing is perfect, but I think Parsifal has just been very unlucky.
I like the OCZ SSD's. Lots of bang for buck, never had any reliability issues. I've never thought "Wow, I wish I paid a bunch extra for an Intel SSD".