Christopher:

Nice speed you are getting from the samsung.

My 240gig Sandisk extreme (got it yesterday) is only 160meg per sec in ASU endurance (should spend a little bit of time figuring out why speed is so low, could be due to sata 2 and microsoft drivers)

And I do think you are crazy for throwing a 256gig drive on the fire ... but I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later!