Intel SSD 320 Series Unreliability, Intel or OSX Lion at fault?

Hi,

I have been using the Intel SSD 320 Series 160Gb SSD in a Quad Core iMac for a couple of months.

Its was running fine all through the Lion Beta program, but Monday evening, my iMac with OSX Lion locked up and I had to power off the system (that never happens to my Mac normally).

On rebooting, I got the flashing folder with a question mark, signifying no devices with a valid OS were detected 😟

The following morning, I had to replace the SSD with a 1TB platter drive and restore my system (thank god for Time Machine).

Disk Utility repoerts the SSD as 8.4Mb in size (no, thats not a typo) and thinks the drive is unformatted.

This is very disappointing, so much for hoping SSD would be more reliable than mechanical drives 😟

I loved the speed of the SSD, but this type of failure whether its Intel's fault or OSX causing this catestrophic failure I am still unsure, but either way its totally un-acceptable and has made me wary of wanting to try again with SSD!

D.