Sober me says, "I think it's too early to make much of the SF test performance to date."
The OCZ Everest product slides and press release (posted on AnandTech and a few other places) today has a dig at SandForce compression technology in it, which is hilarious, but I'm actually stoked about the Octane drives.
SF drives are still pretty good though, and if some new FW can magically fix most of the problems with them -- then great. We need more drives and controllers on the market, and if OCZ can come out of the gate swinging with their own controller, then that's even better. Furthermore, if OCZ can get them out at a competitive price it should have a positive effect on the market.
And if Intel's Cherryville and the new OCZ drives come out in early November as they are said to, I'm going shopping... unless they both get marked up way over MSRP, or end up being a relatively poor value in light of current incumbent SATA III drives.
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