Hardware.fr just posted the first part of an article dedicated to the forces present in the SSD market already un early 2009. They tested the OCZ Apex disk model with two RAID controllers, and the new generation of Samsung drives, the PB22-J.
Samsung set new standards and is now 195 MB/s read and 174 write.
Note that now HardWare.fr also test its r/w once they are fragmented. Indeed, paradoxical as it is, the write cycles and the wear-leveling system, optimizing the wear of memory cells so that they are homogeneous, that these discs are becoming slower after a while, the only way to recover is to format them setting all their data blocks to 0. Note that the Samsung drive is less sensitive than the X25-M Intel, a phenomenon which may give us hope that future optimization controllers help to blur or eliminate this problem.
