I recently got a Kingston SSD for my desktop system, running Fedora 13. It flies. But a new controller is out, from a company called Sandforce.

These are a new breed. Same prices as those with older controllers, but amazing speeds.

285/270GB/s sequential read/write. But more amazing is 50K IOPS writing random 4K (aligned) bytes. That's 200M/second for random writes. Very amazing. My current SSDD is under 40 for that test.

The prices keep coming down. 120G are now about $200. That's just a bit more than I paid for the 64G Kingston just six months or so ago.

Anybody else getting on the SSDD bandwagon? Pretty neat to see your computer boot in 10 seconds, instead of well over a minute. Application starts are also blindingly fast.