I was actually pretty surprised by the performance of the Torqx. The 3016 Phison is probably pretty similar to the 3105 in the Torqx, but I'm 99.4% the firmware of the 3016 uses block level mapping and not page level mapping. If you look at the 512K results in CDM, the 3016, when fully populated, is only gonna do like 12MB/s. The 3105 is just much, much better.

And it somewhat makes sense -- the Phison was surely a CF/SD/etc controller initially, optimized for taking pictures at least 1MB in size.

The Patriot PS-100 I have uses the 3016 with 32nm Toshiba, 32gbit devices. It does get TRIM, but not NCQ. And it sucks. A lot. You can't even complete a run of AS-SSD.

The MyDigitalSSD Bullet 128GB mSATA uses the Phison, and it's quite good. I just don't think it holds up well over time.