[citation][nom]helltag[/nom]Crucial and Kingston are amazing reliability, Not sure what lostmyclan is thinking but Kingston are better than OCZ in reliability and the HyperX series tops most OCZ products in performance. Google did a nice test on DOA and return rates and the "leader" by a long shot was OCZ SSDs. It's why I avoid them, Crucial topped with Intel as the lowest.[/citation]
OCZ is back near the top in reliability and performance with their current SSDs, the Vertex 4 and especially their Vector series.
Also, at least for SSDs, Kingston was having a lot of trouble indirectly for a while. All of the SandForce SSDS were up until around when Intel jumped in and the firmware started getting good all-around for SandForce.