Many would argue solid-state drives are the future of PC storage, but some of today's SSDs apparently aren't as resilient as one might expect. Drives based on Indilinx's "Barefoot" IDX110M00-LC controller are a case in point. In a recent SSD round-up, we discovered that although Barefoot-based OCZ Vertex and Super Talent UltraDrive ME drives excelled in synthetic tests like HD Tach and IOMeter, they suffered from surprisingly poor real-world write and file copy performance. Our results were consistent and repeatable within the confines of our test environment, so we probed deeper in an attempt determine the true nature of the issue.
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