From the article: "The new Indilinx controller models, such as this Crucial 128 GB SSD, are just as fast as the X25-M. And, best of all, they're cheaper, while

From the article: "The new Indilinx controller models, such as this Crucial 128 GB SSD, are just as fast as the X25-M. And, best of all, they're cheaper, while also offering a not-insubstantial bump to 128 GB of storage!" This kind of hand waving irritates me to no end. There are a ton of different ways of measuring i/o performance, and I'm sure the author knows this. To say that the Indilinx based SSD drives are "just as fast" as the Intel SSDs is simply not true. Let's take my favorite way of measuring drive performance, 4KB random write speed. Intel: 5923 IOPS (23.1 MB/s) Indilinx: 1275 IOPS (6.47 MB/s) Source: http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3535&p=3 http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3535&p=3 Granted this article is a few months old, perhaps the firmware for the Indilinx controller has gotten faster, or perhaps the Crucial 128GB drive uses a different Indilinx controller than the 'barefoot' model profiled in the article, but I doubt it.