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Another budget drive (32GB OCZ Onyx) announced

Ouch, the speeds on it are TERRIBLE:

I get those speed with a 2nd gen Kingston in my laptop because it is only a SATA1. As a boot/low intensity drive (i for my laptop) it randoms read/write responsiveness still smokes a spinner in real world usage.

Yes, it looks bad on a benchmark, but I spend more time using rather than gathering stats. I think that is what people are forgetting. What this drive and the Kingston boot drive are there for. I.e. not running transaction queries. This is like the GPUs all over again. When you pay 2x as much for a 10% performance boost you will never notice outside a benchmark.
 
Ouch, the speeds on it are TERRIBLE:

Sequential speeds also don't mean that much to a lot of people. My laptop's limited to SATA I, but I still got an OCZ Agility for it. What really matters for me is the huge boost in random speed and the [relatively] near-zero latency.
 
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