The currently fastest consumer SSD on the market!

One first: Anyone who wants to get the maximum performance out of this SSD, should have a motherboard with Sandy Bridge chipset and associated INTEL feature SATA-600 controller.
The difference between SATA-II and SATA III is to clearly measure here.
I already had the 120GB version and now the 240GB version, I am therefore for completeness on both a.
The 240GB version offers real 223GB, 120GB variant about the 112GB on.
What has bothered me much personally on the 120GB variant of the Vertex 3 is the dramatically inferior performance compared to the 240GB variant (mainly in the Write area).
I had even out the 120GB version and had to find out with great disappointment that this is not even at the level of a Crucial RealSSD C300 128GB! Unfortunately, there was the time of my purchase only benchmarks / Reviews the 240GB version and I had such a difference is not expected.
Yes, you read correctly, the C300 128GB achieved better performance than the Vertex 3 120GB. That all mind you disabled under ideal conditions, ie Sandy Bridge SATA-600 Controller, all the energy saving options (C3, C6, C1E, EIST, etc.) in the BIOS (only by the maximum write values ​​achievable, otherwise up to 30% loss of power!). I also own the C300 128GB - these potters fantastic in my gaming notebook (boot times including EFI BIOS under 10 seconds.!) - And therefore can assess under real conditions.
I have the Vertex 3 120GB immediately returned again and now put on me the 240GB variant.
The order (240GB) achievable levels make then however in most positive sense speechless. AS SSD values ​​as follows:

Seq. Read: 522.32 MB / s
Seq. Write: 298.05 MB / s
4K Read: 23.35 MB / s
4K Write: 106.83 MB / s
4K 64Thrd Read: 187.68 MB / s
4K 64Thrd Write: 227.50 MB / s
Access Time Read: 0.136 ms
Access Time Write: 0.195 ms
Read Score: 263
Write Score: 364 (!)
Score Total: 760 (!!!)
Copy Benchmark:
ISO: 461.56 MB / s at 2,33s (!)
Program: 161.75 MB / s at 8.70 s (!)
Match: 262.57 MB / s at 5.26 s (!!!)
Compression Benchmark:
Read: 497-523 MB / s
Writing: 339-471 MB / s

This is also made clear that the new SandForce 2200 controller currently leads the field even with incompressible data.
All in all, the Vertex 3 Read on Sandybrigde is in the 120GB variant only in the field sequential SATA-600 controller an advance (over 500 MB / s), but overall it ranks well behind the C300 a (C300 128GB 672 Score AS SSD! Vertex 3 120GB only about 550).

Who really wants to go into a new SSD era, can not get on the 240GB variant!
It is in fact the fastest consumer SSD (SATA, not PCI-E) on the market and the way it looks, the alternatives are the bottom line all subordinate.
Although one here but again the Church must be in the village, under real conditions, so talk OS boot, startup, copying, etc. one notices among all current SSD's certainly no significant difference - also not old for my three years 80GB Intel X25-M G2! The one would have been determined with a stopwatch. In this respect you also the 120 version of the Vertex 3 could then make a recommendation, or all SSD's unless someone comes from a normal "mechanical HDD.
Only one has already be clear who spends a lot of money for an SSD, will ensure maximum performance and does not provide the Vertex 3 120GB currently unfortunately!