Kingston SSDNow S100 16Gb $55 230MB/s

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I haven't been paying attention to hardware in awhile, I take it 4k is key for Windows 7 performance?

Here's a review of the 30g vertex1 with crystaldiskmarks for single and 2x raid0:
http://translate.google.com/translat...n&hl=&ie=UTF-8

The reason 4K is a great OS drive performance indicator is that over 60% of file IO happen for files less than 64K in size. Big portion of those are around 4K in size. Thus rundom performance with that file size is very important. Right now Intel X-25M, RealSSD C300 and SF-1200 drivers offer the best 4K MB/s and IO/s. Sequential numbers are good for people who do image editing and audio/video recording/transcoding. Other than that they are not very important in a desktop environment.

Note that if you read through this thread http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=260956 it is evident that even Win7 and most apps are lagging at utilizing amazing disk performance that current crop of SSDs have to offer.

Thanks for the link, I had Vertex 1 in the past and compared S100 scores to my CDM and I saw that Vertex 1 is a better drive.

If you're willing to pay about $110-120 for SSD, RealSSD C300 64Gb is the best performer right now along with 40-50Gb SF-1200 based drives (F40, Vertex2, S599)