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The best SSD controllers of 2009, the Indilinx Barefoot and Intel PC29AS21BA0, are far from eclipsed by the new arrivals. Just the SandForce SF-1200 and Marvell 88SS9174 manage to equal or outdo them in certain areas, without suffering from too many faults.

- The Crucial M225 64 GB and 128 GB, which are standard models
- The OCZ Vertex Turbo 120 GB, with an overclocked version of the Barefoot
- The G.Skill Falcon II, which combines a Barefoot with IMFT 34nm flash
- The OCZ Vertex 2 100 GB, based on the already famous SandForce SF-1200 controller
- The Crucial C300 128 GB, using the Marvell SATA 6 Gbits/s controller
- The Sandisk G3 120 GB, long-awaited and finally available
- The Kingston SSDNow V SNV425, built around the JMicron JMF618 controller
- The Kingston SSDNow V+ SNVP325, using a Toshiba controller

How will SSDs develop in the future? We’ve been following developments carefully over the last couple of years and it seems clear that there won’t be any great jumps forward in terms of practical performance. The many new SATA 6 Gbits controllers planned for the end of the year should of course be faster, but not necessarily in the most visible areas to the user. The weak link that was the hard drive in our machines has already been perfectly replaced by current SSDs!

http://www.behardware.com/articles/7...-compared.html

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