OCZ had a very good run with SandForce but, if the Vertex 4 is any indication, the company's future is with Indilinx. Powered by the Indilinx infused Everest 2 controller, the Vertex 4 combines synchronous MLC NAND with a massive cache to deliver some of the best all around performance we've seen. With the v1.5 firmware, the drive was able to read at speeds as high as 561 MB/s and write at speeds in excess of 480 MB/s. The Vertex 4 also edged out the SandForce-based SSDs for the top spot in our 4K random write tests, producing more than 82,000 IOPS. Best of all, it performed equally well with compressible and incompressible data and was able to sustain these speeds, even after intensive use.



Link: CDR Labs