Quote Originally Posted by Christopher View Post
I swill swear upon everything good and holy in this world that Intel designed the 510 for me because it seriously feels faster somehow. It feels faster than the Plextor M3P and faster than the 256GB 830. But if you just look at the numbers... It looks pedestrian. It should be seriously outclassed. But subjectively it feels blazing fast.
I don't take the SSD benchmarks too seriously. As long as it has good read/write latency and decent sustained sequential write performance, the SSD won't often be a bottleneck in a system. Even small 60gig SSDs with relatively poor sequential writes don't do too badly either most of the time, and only see any slowness when copying large quantities of data to them.

I'm not at all surprised the Intel 510 works as well as any other SSD despite poor benchmarks.