Got three of them now. MPC500, 2500SE and 2000XL. Should have went for the 2000XL straight away... from what i've picked up over the past two years, it's the best sounding one (besides the 60 and 3000, which are super hard to find (and freaking expensive if you find one)).
Next is gonna be an EMU SP1200, but that one does cost an arm and a leg aswell...
Installed the drive and gave it a lot of benching after enabling AHCI and getting proper Intel RST drivers sorted. Seems to be as fast as advertised, even with my outdated X38/ICH9R motherboard. Everything loads lightning fast, no going back to regular HDD system drives.
those benches dont really mean aynthing though
the only number that has any bearing on real world performance is random read and write
and yeah ssds are arsume
Wow, those are some very convincing results! Windows must boot in the blink of an eye. And other apps. Although that might be a bit slower in reality.
What I have right now is 2 WD Raptors in RAID 0 with the same chipset. Best I got so far is 140MB/s which was already a noticeable difference to my Samsung storage drive. I can't imagine how sick 2 SSDs in RAID 0 is going to be.
Coming to think of it, I might actually need nothing less because lately I'm doing alot of heavy VFX compositing with HD, 2K and even 4K video for work.
again sequential speeds are utterly irrelevant for 99% of all usual pc work
random is where its at and a good ssd will have a random read of about 60mb/sec while a hdd is somewhere down at around 0.1mb/sec