something SSD you didn't know about from OCZ

[Tony]

Well, to put it in perspective, a Raptor can do I think around 100-150 random writes @64K, a 15K.5 SAS drive does ~300.
Given that any good SSD today will surpass both of these in reads (all sorts), the SSD should at least match the random writes of a Raptor.

That doesn't mean that less would not be flying speed for most users, but we aren't talking average Joe sixpack when it comes to buying SSDs, they are still expensive, and only a (fairly) minor part of users consider them over more space unless the speed is much better.

SteadyState as bonus speed is a nice thing to know, but it mustn't be required to get something working.
Also, while most people won't think of changing BIOS/RAID options, if it matters, you should put in the manual?
I'm not saying you didn't, I don't know... I just wonder?

you seem to be a person who needs benchmarks to prove something is good or bad, I used to be like this, i even used to play superpi things change though.

Average hard drive seek is 11 to 13ms, add in other latency and you can ofter see 14ms in a bench. SSD even crappy JM602 ones seek in 0.2 to 0.3ms, so they have found the data and served it faster than a normal drive seeks, never mind serves.
keeping random writes in check on a system using a few tweaks is no bad thing, M$ are going to add similar tweaks to W7 soon, and the best part they are cheap..usually free. Now i agree some don't want to tweak, some don't know how to...Vertex is aimed directly at those people...and really is directed at you also.

I was honest im my original post, please guys don't compare Apex to Vertex, they are totally different and positioned totally different.