Asus crippled ICH10 performance on their X58 boards.

[TimoneX]

Intel X25-E for example.

I figured you'd say that. I saw one of your own reviews that showed large gains in some operations with hw raid. I seem to recall you stating that the controller added latency though. My HW raid setup is adding latency as well...a whopping .2ms of it. .4 vs .2 according to HDTune. I haven't tried it on the ICH10R yet. These are cheapy patriot warps though($50 each). The Intel XM25-E is the best SSD available IMO...unfortunately I am not willing to spend $1000+ on a couple of them.

Not arguing with you btw...never used the extremes. I'm a cheap bastahd!

I did use OCZ solids on both ICH10R & the adaptec 3085 and it simply wasn't acceptable. Never entirely got rid of the stutter. These warps are lightning fast and very smooth. HW raid and cheapy SSDs are in fact a viable alternative to pricey(quality) SSDs IMO.