Vertex LE vs Crucial C300

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Gullars,
the only thing that comes in between what u say and reality, is that as an idea, this all seem very nice (though it's hard seeing how a dual SF-1200 SSD with a ROC added to it and redesigned PCB, enclosure etc. will only cost 1.5 times a single SF based SSD) on paper, yet ususally, it's harder to implement and not always gets out "linearly"..
though the idea, is indeed interesting.

another thing which comes up, reading your post, is that the compression is (as far as i understand..), what gives u the 2x times speed, yet actually, you don't get the drive to perform at 270MBps (saturating the protocol)..
the drive itself is manipulating data faster then a normal non-compress-using drive, though the badwidth sup[plied by the SF controller, is not 400MBps full duplex, but rather sending ~200MBps to the CPU and ~400MBps (by your calculation) to the NAND flash chips.

i'm yet to have/see the full view/understanding on that drive so i might be missing here something,
yet from a brief overview, so it seems.

the OWC 50GB SF-1500 based drive costs ~230$, take off the 1500 and place a 1200 on it, take top 40-50$ off,
u got a 190$ drive, double by 2 and add (you said 100$ ROC), so you end up with ~450 (+50 for any overhead),
~500$ for a 100GB drive.., let's say 550.

that's not too bad if it would work as u say (double the ability of a LE 100GB and for a reasonable price add up).