Non-intel SSDs really that inferior?

[delanvital]

The OCZ Vertex disks arent bad at all, only if you get your hands on one of those rubbish JMicron dual controller based Vertex models.. those are horrible..average access times of 50ms worst case access times of 500ms!

On some tests the OCZ vertex actually beats the Intel based disks

They have solved it by changing to samsungs new controller which handels really well (as is apperently a lot better at managing the fragmentation)

Are you saying there are Vertex models that employ the JMicron controller? From Anandtech I got the impression, that Vertex was introduced to solve the problems with the JMicron models (as fx listed here) such as fx Core V2. Dual JMicron controller from OCZ would be the Apex, AFAIK :g:

[kregoron]

Are you saying there are Vertex models that employ the JMicron controller? From Anandtech I got the impression, that Vertex was introduced to solve the problems with the JMicron models (as fx listed here) such as fx Core V2. Dual JMicron controller from OCZ would be the Apex, AFAIK :g:

The initial released Vertex still had the dual JMicron controller, but rumors are that OCZ pulled em back and replaced with the new Samsung

afaik that is, might be wrong tho

[delanvital]

Well, I ordered it.

Searching the OCZ forum, it seem there are tons of good stuff there for people with SSDs, e.g. a TRIM-app. They also discuss using RAM-drives to save writes to the disk, such as FF cache, temp folder etc. So, if you have, or plan to get, an SSD-disk, check here