25nm production from Intel, I think samsung, or was it micron are skipping a beat and moving to 20 or 22nm though I doubt as early as Intel to 25nm. Neither is necessarily better than the other, you can have higher capacity and yields/lower prices with a higher sized process if its better quality.
Indilinx have a new controller coming out this year, though probably not till Q4, might be out Q3 though, can't quite remember the info.
Basically Intel and Indilinx to bring new drives out by the end of the year, you'd be surprised if both weren't Sata 3 based drives, but its not necessarily the sata 3 that makes the drives fast, its the random read/writes that are so outstanding on the Crucial drive and thats where the speed is most important.
The high sequential read speeds are awesome for benchmarks, but there aren't a whole heck of a lot of situations is useful. Windows can already boot in 10-15seconds, most apps aren't so big that 250 to 350mb's speeds will make a massive difference.
Honestly for most people you'd be hard pressed to feel the difference between the Indilinx/intel's/Sandforce/Marvell(crucial drive) controllers.
You can already see, benchmarks that will ALWAYS score for ANY difference in tests so aren't a great way to really see if you'll feel a difference in real world performance.
I mean, can you feel the difference between a system that scores 12k in 3dmark, or 13k, not at all, 12k and 30k, obviously.
One thing a LOT of reviews are lacking lately, is actual real world tests, not a benchmark that scores differently, but an actual real world test, like Crysis load times, which barely change between ssd's, windows loading which can show a difference, but not that much.
I got way to caught up in numbers, I'm now using a 128gb C300, its fast, theres no doubt, but honestly, windows booting, most apps loading, several games I've tried so far, theres no noticeable difference between this and a indilinx drive, or two indlinx drives in raid 0. I also in use couldn't tell the difference between the two drives in raid 0.
Its a great drive, it is very marginally quicker in some things but, don't think that everything you do is completely harddrive limited, its just not, most things are optimised for as little loading as possible, games load in one go fairly quickly, fairly sequentially and not huge amounts of data at any one time. They've hidden loading behind cutscenes and in the background as much as possible, so you're only gaining a little extra performance from an SSD in lots of loading situations. Some things are obviously very hard drive dependant, but not many things people do on their home computers on ssd's.
I'd put money on the new Intel and Indilinx drives being great in benchmarks, but unlikely to actually be very different in real world usage.
