For some reason my SSDs have never lasted very long. Ive been using consumer grade SSDs since 2009 and among those which failed are a SuperTalent Ultradrive 128GB, Intel X-25M and Crucial M400. Now i use a Samsung 840 Evo which is actually a replacement since the first one died after just a couple of weeks.
Granted i am a poweruser with a lof of small writes because of software development related activities, but it still strikes me that everyone else is of the impression that SSDs last forever. Certainly not my experience. The story is similar for a couple of my buddies.
The experience with SSD reliability of myself and my friends/colleagues/contacts has been similar to spinning metal type drives, though with a smaller sample-set thus far. I've used a number of drives at home and work and had two fail: one just died, and other started reporting write errors (one Sandisk and one OCZ, I forget which exact models and which failed which way).
Between us we've got a fair few Crucial drives running pretty much 24/7 (in my case at home: the system drive in a Windows desktop that never turns off, a pair in RAID1 for the system + core VMs volumes in a server), and a selection from other manufacturers. IIRC the ones in the machine at the office are by Samsung.
Other people I know have had similar experience. Most of the failures we've experienced were early on, which either means it was down to luck or quality has improved over time. I wouldn't say I find SSD to be any less reliable than traditional drives, though when they do fail it is more often that they "just die without warning" than other failure modes.
If we're doing anecdotes, of the dozen plus SSDs I've bought for myself or helped other people select/install, I've never had a failure. This includes my ~2008 SuperTalent drive, which still works like it was brand new (which is to say slowly; SSDs at that point largely ended up slower than HDDs in at least some metrics, but I was still excited).
Like many others, I use an SSD as my system drive and HDDs for data drives. Accessing files the first time might take a bit longer, but with 32GB RAM, after the initial accesses, I don't see many hits on the drive.
i never got a ssd (sadface) but maybe you should try a different PSU, if your PSU is sending crazy voltages to it it might shorten the lifespan (just common sense im not an ssd expert), maybe you have a strong graphics card thats drawing all the power and a shotty psu or something.
Granted i am a poweruser with a lof of small writes because of software development related activities, but it still strikes me that everyone else is of the impression that SSDs last forever. Certainly not my experience. The story is similar for a couple of my buddies.