Decided that I'm too lazy to reinstall windows on my desktop, it is working fine and touching it is bad ... so the vertex 4 goes into the endurance rig. Besides, the octane drive failing early doesn't give me the most confidence in this drive.

I've updated the OROM to 8.9 on my P5K-E/Wifi-AP motherboard, using the BIOS links provided by OCZ. Hopefully that will resolve the stability difficulties I have been having.

Just copying static data to drive now . . . . stupid wireless network.

Endurance system stats (this is for all drives)

Intel Pentium E5400 at 2.7ghz (stock)
Asus P5K-E/Wifi-AP motherboard (modified BIOS, 8.9 OROM)
4gig RAM
Windows 7 x64

Will post again with performance figures and drive settings once this copy is done.