But MY system has been running an SSD virtually forever with no problems.
In any case, last year I ran into SSD issues at work, and as a result, one manufacturer's SSDs were pulled out of the build, costing them quite a bit of money. And I didn't even tried to cut power, only did a reset while keeping the power on. (our product has a battery) Here are the SMART stats of one SSD: »
Re: degradation of SSDsI think there are 2 basic ways to make SSDs resistant to sudden power outages:
a) include some kind of temporary power source, be it a supercap or a battery
b) use journaling and temporary internal backups during writes
The issue with a) is cost, plus it requires some space, which may not be available in certain form factors such as mSATA
The issue with b) is that it could cut write performance in half