To their credit, OCZ did replace the drives promptly and without hassle. The 60GB replacement hasn't failed (albeit again under light use). The 240GB is on a Fedex truck for me today, so we will see on that one.
I put a 300GB Intel 320 in the ThinkPad about three months ago. No problems at all with it, but time will tell!
The Intel drive has better utility software - you can do a secure erase, for example. OCZ doesn't provide a utility like that. There are open source utilities and such, but it can be pretty chancy getting them to work (I never succeeded).
An aside: I kept the ThinkPad's hard drive and put it in an Ultrabay adapter replacing the optical drive. Large and less frequently accessed files (photo, video, downloads, etc.) go there. This gives lots of extra storage and should save wear on the SSD (not that it helped the OCZ any).
The hard drive is set to turn off after a few minutes even on AC power, so it sits idle most of the time. When I do need an optical drive I use a USB one, or I can swap the original drive back in.
The first OCZ was a Vertex 2 180GB and failed after 1 month. I got it RMA'd and received my second Vertex 2. That one failed after 2.5 months.
Both intels are still running strong. I'm also surprised to see the OCZ's so strongly recommended. The RMA process sucked both times and the second time is working out to be a refund. I haven't received the refund yet, but at least there is a process.
The first was when my current system was new two years ago. I was never able to get it working.
The second lasted a year and a half before it started corrupting files before finally dying.
The third lasted almost two whole weeks before I received a BSOD while gaming and a no longer detected SSD.
All three of these requires some form of CMOS reset/firmware fiddling to get running initially.
At least the Vertex 2 seems fine so far. But overall, I'm not too impressed with OCZ. I'll give them credit for replacing the drives without much fuss, but the last two RMAs took around 2 weeks to receive the replacement. Which is a huge pain in the ass when it's your OS drive in your rig.
OWC's customer service was stellar though. Every time I called the phone was answered by a tech (an engineer I suspect) who very much knew what he was talking about and never wasted my time with scripts. After one failed fix -- it looked like zapping PRAM had fixed it, but it didn't -- they mailed me a new drive and I returned the old in its packaging. The new drive has been running fine since February.
bitter crap