from what I can see, the intel is the only solid contender... yea the indilinx controller is nice and all, but it is an insanity to upgrade firmware on it, and the current firmware doesn't handle its internal background defragging very well (SSD defrag not regular defrag from OS... os defrag should be off). so when it settles into its real performance (After a few weeks) it is not as fast as people make it out to be. New firmwares for this controller keep on bringing it closer to intel's level, but also keep on adding new bugs and issues that need resolving, and unlike intel it erases all data when you upgrade the firmware.
I expect prices to keep on dropping at an insane rate and for performance to improve as well. in the next few months we are expecting new controllers, new process technologies for MLC/SLC chips, controllers that can use MLC chips from companies other than samsung who has a de facto monopoly for SSD chips manufacturing (all controllers expect the intel can only use samsung MLC, intel controller only intel MLC... other MLC makers are limited to making cellphone and video camera memory only... and look at the price of SDcards)
they are certainly reliable, i would say MORE reliable than spindle drives!
I would go to PCper.com and read about SSDs there, they are THE place for SSD reviews, they discovered the issue with intel drives (which resulted in the only firmware upgrade from intel, to fix that bug), they discovered that SSDs have a much higher performance when brand new which later settles down (it is a one time performance drop not a continues decline). etc...
Anandtech is also EXTREMELY reliable source, its just that anandtech doesn't HAVE all that many SSD articles... any SSD article on anandtech though is number 1 in quality.