On 3 May 2013 21:59, <geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com> wrote:

I tried putting our index on a single OCZ SSD and it died during buildindex.
The SSD was completely unresponsive thereafter, which is pretty
appalling behaviour for a storage device.

I had similar problems with OCZ. I was only copying venti state (as raw partitions) from one drive to the ssd.

I haven't tried again with other makes, mainly for lack of time.