I've read here someplace that Skuzzy/HTC didn't recommend running AH on an SSD due to all the small writes being bad for the drive. I had already been running AH on a Samsung 830 128 gb drive for about 6 months, and it's been about 6 months since then, and it's still alive and kicking. The drive is cheap enough that if it caks I'll just replace it with a bigger/faster/newer one. I should get around to moving AH to my other regular spinner Caviar/Black drive I suppose, just in case, as my OS is on the SSD as well, and it would mean a system wide reformat most likely if it died.
I've been really lucky, I've never had a component go "bad" on me before I've gotten rid of it, not since the days of the Commodore 64, and that's a LOT of computers. I blew out a joystick port once by wiping the screen of my old school monitor while holding the stick, and the electric static shock blew the port, but that was my stupidity, and not the fault of the product.
Are failures really all that common?