Quote Originally Posted by johnw View Post
I disagree. Certainly the 320 is not a top performer, but it is not meant to be. The performance is "good enough" for most users (granted, xtremesystems is not "most users").
For me, the selling points for the 320 are these:

* Intel reliability -- well under 1% annual failure rate
* data protection -- XOR / RAID-4-like redundancy
* power-loss protection with on-board capacitors
* low power usage
* SSD toolbox program
A non-XS user won't know what the above things mean or that it has them
IMO, for XS-ers only reliability might be of interest here. Speeds are not on par, the drive is in its own bracket - neither slow as the old G2, neither fast as even old SSDs, much less as new ones.
Unless the price is extremely lower than the rest, I don't see it as a viable buying option.
It's not that we need >G3 speeds, but if we can have them, with the same capacity and same price, realiability won't make me bite.
Just my 2cents - or 20cents, the inflation since the invention of the term prolly made it higher