You should check out Anand's newest review. Indilinx drives win some benchmarks, Intel wins others.
Honestly for desktop use, they're just as fast as each other.
+1.
Even the worst SSDs (but of course, you won't be buying them) beats the fastest harddisks in a lot of scenarios (but then again, even the worst SSDs are still expensive)
For day to day use, even just a moderately decent SSD will be far and beyond the performance of a HDD, which is why most reviewers almost swear by the line "once you go SSD, you won't go back to HDD".
I don't have personal experience (so anybody reading this can just take it with a grain of salt - I provide no warranty on your would-be SSD experience
😀 ), but not for lack of trying - from where I am (outside US, different continent), these things are not only rare (not even a single brick-and-mortar PC shop here has them - even though they've got new stuff like the 5xxx listed already) but would also probably be much more expensive even if they were available. I rejoiced initially when I saw the $89 Kingston SSD review in a different site, but realized it was the price after rebate, which will never be applicable here.
Oh well. Maybe the third generation of SSDs will be the ones that will be available mainstream here, until then I can only dream of the SSD benefits such as everything just "feeling smooth and responsive".
I think I've been brainwashed by overly-enthusiastic SSD reviewers that I now often look at my PC case (in the general direction of my HDD) and almost hear myself saying "tsk tsk, HDD, you fail me" everytime file I/O seems to slowdown my PC :biggrin:
