Is this really the standard case for SSD's? I know they have a certain number of writes, but didn't know the failure rate was this high. It seems strange that all the drives you got did not have warranties. On Newegg I'll sometimes buy parts that seem like really great deals. Eventually they will either brake/perform poorly. I haven't cheaped out on hardware since then. I just can't stand the hassle of bad hardware anymore.
Those drives didn't fail to running out of write cycles -- they simply wouldn't have had time to do that by now. They failed because SSD's are still quite new devices that haven't seen the kind of decades of slow improvement like most other consumer hardware.
Most SSD crashes are because the firmware managed to corrupt something, and thus you can fix most failed SSD's by reflashing their firmware, assuming the drive has a method of doing this without special equipment. (doing so would, of course, erase the entire drive)
