Quote Originally Posted by Biker View Post
I was going to grab 4 to test but then I saw a slew of Sandforce benches all over the net which fell well short of stated performance... especially with regard to sequential rates... so it was back to sit on the fence some more for me
Care to provide a few links?
All the reviews I've found seem to be on par with what would be expected, including the anand one.
Unless I've misread some of them, I'll include the ones I found so far...

SF-1500 reviews:
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/sho...spx?i=3751&p=1
http://macperformanceguide.com/Revie...y_Extreme.html
http://www.barefeats.com/hard130.html
http://translate.google.com/translat...ml&sl=fr&tl=en

SF-1200 reviews:
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/319...200/index.html

Threads:
I think this thread can be taken with a grain of salt....
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/25...ercury-extreme
the guy seems to be in way too much of a hurry to rule it out
*SF-1200
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ht=OWC+mercury