I have 2 OCZ Vertex in my system since over a year now, no errors whatsoever.
Still run Vista, so i use a little tool called wiper.exe to keep it fast (google performance degradation SSD). And fast it is..... 212MB read / 170MB/s write.
This is the OLD vertex, there is also a newer, improved version called the Vertex Turbo, which is like 250/200MB/s !!!
The best investment at this moment you can make for your PC to make it faster is definately a SSD !
I didn't fail !
I just found out 10,000 ways that didn't work.