Best performing/value SSD or duo, at 40-100GB?

[jalyst]

but then price will be a issue for most sandforce based ssds as they have lots of "spare" nand to reduce the negative impacts of usage.

Interesting point, wonder if they'll loose out to indilinx and postville based drives in the longer term as result of that...

The x25m is 80GB, so you would have some more headroom there, intel limited max write speeds artificially to make the x25e look a bit better, but in worst case situations where other ssds tank like crazy the x25 (both m and e) just keep going which makes them overall very attractive drives.

Interesting point, wonder why that is exactly, just more mature controller/fw?

^yep, they should scale to the same extent in raid.

Same extent? X25-V should have a notable edge over 2x 30GB Vertex!

What does "TRIM support in RAID mode for drives that not part of a RAID volume" mean?
http://www.intel.com/support/chipset.../CS-022304.htm