lol. You are a nice reliable source, although there are many, many people like you out there.

Well, pictures/benchmark speaks a thousand words AND also clear up some confusions. I did some becnchmarking recently with my 2 SSDs (Intel and Kingston) and a Vrep 150 Sata 2.

Thanks, that clears a million things. I saw something like that around on the web. It is a SATA 2 VRap but I don't think going to 3 will increase by 80mb/s

http://www.techspot.com/review/395-asrock-z68-extreme4/page13.htmlThis is a link to some benchmarks with SRT. Most of the time it fits in that entry level SSD area above the momentus XT and a few other desktop HDDs. With the SSD read times increased by 35mb/s.

Based on my own research, Intel SSD performace is far better compared to other companies that are currently on the market. Intel has the performace, stability and reliability. Their current 320s(Sata2) and 510s(for Sata3) are good drives. If you have a native SATA3 MB, get a SSD SATA3, the performace will be amazing, however, avoid add-on sata3 cards to go with it as it will not be able to achieve it full speed. The intel SSD i benchmarked is a 2nd generation, so their 3rd generation, the transfer speed is up to 250MB/s. For some reason, I wouldn't pick corsair ssd (certain models), because I have seen many refurbished corsair ssd for sale on NCIX. Makes me wonder why there are so many corsair refurbish available. Intel and Kingston good in book. My specs:i7 920 @ 3.996GB 1600 7-7-7-24460GTX SLI for surroundIntel SSD (OS), Kingston SSD (FSX), 150VRep (FSX), 1TB WD Black, 1TB WD GreenW7 Ult 64bit

I would go with the same two. Maybe this one actually:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227724So here is my awesome system plane: Corsair 800DIntel i7 3960XASUS Mars 2 GTX 580 x2 in quad SLIAX120032GB Wintec RAM (only 32GB set I could find)1.2TB VeloDriveASUS Maximus V Formula X79 (yet to be released but their will be one)H100 (only one I could find that will fit the LGA 2011)ASUS BluRayWindows 7 Ultimate 64bit Total:$11,946 i wonder if it will play minecraft.

Based on my own research, Intel SSD performace is far better compared to other companies that are currently on the market. Intel has the performace, stability and reliability. Their current 320s(Sata2) and 510s(for Sata3) are good drives. If you have a native SATA3 MB, get a SSD SATA3, the performace will be amazing, however, avoid add-on sata3 cards to go with it as it will not be able to achieve it full speed. The intel SSD i benchmarked is a 2nd generation, so their 3rd generation, the transfer speed is up to 250MB/s. For some reason, I wouldn't pick corsair ssd (certain models), because I have seen many refurbished corsair ssd for sale on NCIX. Makes me wonder why there are so many corsair refurbish available. Intel and Kingston good in book. My specs:i7 920 @ 3.996GB 1600 7-7-7-24460GTX SLI for surroundIntel SSD (OS), Kingston SSD (FSX), 150VRep (FSX), 1TB WD Black, 1TB WD GreenW7 Ult 64bit

you don't need a SATAIII motherboard to run a SATAIII SSD at full speed.

You do need SATA 3 ports on the mobo otherwise they would just be all the same.

A SATAIII hard drive can run full speed off a SATAII port

Then why do they have SATA III ports on the mobo?

It's a gismo. To try and make out it has these new features. Marketing ploy. The fastest SATA hard drives we have are ~550MB/s SSDs. SATAII is 3GB/s.

I'm not sure what it is Andrew, but you've obviously never used a VRap.

You seem the type to buy a graphics card for it's looks other than it's performance.

Lol. Andrew is a kid in high school. He doesn't own anything mate.

Really???!!! 1:30 AM isn't the best time to judge what's friendly and what's not, so I'm going to refrain. But seriously, what's going on!!! Nevermind - 80 posts per day, self proclaimed hardware guru, and no humility about it... something is fishy here and I'm tired of just watching it happen... I thought this was the AVSIM forum, not the Di forum

There was a spammer by the name of Sam the Onion Man.

I could not be bothered finishing the test but I came up with these results for my caviar blue (left) and my other, pretty old 80GB HDD (right).I was a bit surprised with the 80GB one.

Hahaha wow. I think something broke on that one. You should of let it get to the 4K 64K random read/write. Just to compare to a Vrap and an SSD