I still love my 9010. I find it a very worthwhile investment. Although, I'm starting to get the feeling Acard released this product now, only because it wanted to recoup the development costs for this device. They showed the ANS-9010 for 2 years at various conventions, always giving us a new release date. I think they intended to tweak the hardware for more performance, but decided to release it to recoup costs before SSDs take over the market. I was intending to purchase a second box for another computer, but i have decided to hold off on account of SSD. SSD is dropping so fast in price, I expect I'll be able to find 32GB SSD drives with comparable performance benchmarks next year for <$200. The ANS-9010 with no ram is twice that price. I expect that next year I'll be buying a 128MB SSD drive with similar benchmarks to the ANS-9010 and I'll be using the ANS-9010 for temp files and swap file.

The only advantage I see in this hardware in 12 months is it has infinite durability(ie. it can be written to indefinitely without degrading).

If this box had been released 2 years ago, it might have set the stage for a performance revolution that will now be seen with SSD becoming mainstream. The seek times of SSD/RAM makes all the difference. I installed Windows XP on my box using the 1 port setup vice 2 port, and I could not measure a difference in boot times.

Those of you looking at the 1 port and 2 port versions, the big difference(IMO) is only the number of RAM slots. Benchmarks don't tell a story that reflected real world application. Don't let the 'lower' performance numbers fool you. If I had to buy all over again, I'd look at the number of ram slots of each, not the lack of dual port support. You will ultimately be limited in size by the number of RAM slots. I think that reason for there being little real world performance, is that there are very few sources of data at these speeds to begin with. If you copy files over gigabit LAN, you are limited by LAN, if RAID0 the hard drive seek/throughput, if CD-ROM/DVD-ROM then seek/throughput...etc(I think I made the point).

I'm thinking that when 32GB CF disks are cheaper, I'll shut down my computer and let it do a backup to CF, then make a duplicate of the CF to another CF. If I kill the OS, I'll always have the "backup CF" to just plug and play.