Anandtech has a preview up for the upcomming OCZ Vertex 3 Pro using SandForce's SF-2500 controller.
4K Random writes are quite insane. This honestly looks like a killer, especially if price can stay inline with current SF-1200 drives (which I have massive doubts about
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When connected to a good 6Gbps controller, the Vertex 3 Pro is significantly faster than anything else on the market today. Obviously the V3P itself is an unreleased drive so things could change as its competitors show up as well, but the bar has been set very high. The Vertex 3 Pro is the first SSD to really put 6Gbps SATA to good use. In fact I'd say its the first drive that really needs a 6Gbps interface. Whenever you Sandy Bridge owners get replacement motherboards, this may be the SSD you'll want to pair with them.
About performance degradation when completely filling the drive with uncompressible data:
I'm suprised this hasn't made the news section already (Edit : It is being discussed in the Storage forum)
As expected the SF-1200 drive drops from 138MB/s down to 81MB/s. The drive is bottlenecked by its block recycling path and performance never goes up beyond 81MB/s. The SF-2000 however doesn't drop in performance. Brand new performance is at 157MB/s and post-torture it's still at 157MB/s.
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