Hrmmm... he mentions how he formatted the drive and this should force a TRIM or something... but I really didn't think the two were related. I'm just a bit skeptical of his analysis. The fact his drive kinda died is sucky, though. Still, the Intel SSD reviews have all been enormously positive, and iteration #2 has been out for 6 months or more, so I think I'm going to be ok.
We shall see.