Looks like an interesting controller and a decent price, but I would love to see some real tests, maybe you can coax your "buddy" at the ocz forum to do some.

I wouldn't put too much stock in that AS SSD benchmark, at least for sequential rates. If you look at SteveRo's thread http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=231629 , he has 2xmobi (which have about 100read/90write) , but on the areca it's getting 1500/1400 , and 200/160 on ICHR9 (even 2x Acard gets the same sequential #'s as 2xMobi on that benchmark when on the Areca...). One possible explanation is that the Seqential test is too small and all reads and writes are cached. A better , more relevant test for STR would be to do some file copy tests with larger test pattern (e.g. 1 with a large file, multiple tiny ones, at least larger than a few GB , etc...)

Of course other real tests would be welcome, like game level loading times, app loading, maybe even napalm's crazy bench