Been having a play with 3 ssd's Intel X25 , Vertex 2E and corsair F60 I was interested regarding the fact that the sandforce controllers compress data while I'm assuming the Intels do not + interested in which drives had a heavier CPU load.
Unfortunately the only things i really learned was synthetic benchmarks are a bit of a waste of time regarding real world performance comparison as the slightly slowest "Intel drive" was the fastest booting windows and starting apps also copying/reading compressed data (if i get a chance I will try and do some more mixed data copying tests)
Bottom line I liked the corsair slightly more than the Vertex but I doubt there is anything in it, but for me the Intel drives are still my favorite and I would bet money,the most consistently reliable with all motherboard controllers and setups
Unfortunately the only things i really learned was synthetic benchmarks are a bit of a waste of time regarding real world performance comparison as the slightly slowest "Intel drive" was the fastest booting windows and starting apps also copying/reading compressed data (if i get a chance I will try and do some more mixed data copying tests)
Bottom line I liked the corsair slightly more than the Vertex but I doubt there is anything in it, but for me the Intel drives are still my favorite and I would bet money,the most consistently reliable with all motherboard controllers and setups