ALL the synthetic benchmark numbers are misleading!
To get a feel for the actual throughput of your SSD in a worst case scenario, try this>
Partition and format with XP so the partition is not correctly aligned
DO NOT apply any SSD tweeks!
(They should be plug and play like hard drives)
Copy and paste at least 200MB of data of around 1000 files in at least 100 folders to the sam SSD that it was copied from and time it
Sandforce drives only get good write speeds on compressible data and become slower than molasses with data already on the drive
On a dualcore ATOM (worst case scenario) a Vertex 2 can only paste data from the same drive at 3.6 MEGABYTES per second
My 2.5 inch WD laptop drive at 5400RPM BEAT it by 1 second for 200MB of data
Final results for 200MB of data
55 seconds for a Vertex 2
54 seconds for a 5400RPM laptop drive
17 SECONDS for a 7200RPM WD desktop drive !!!
Boot time on the ATOM was 12 seconds for the Vertex 2
Boot time on the ATOM was 12 seconds with a 300X Compact Flash