Intel 311 Series Larsen Creek SSDMAESC020G201 mSATA 20GB SATA II SLC Enterprise Solid State Disk

Pros: SSD cacheing so sweet, Intel SRT Works good

Cons: only programs you use alot get cached

Overall Review: need z68 chipset with mSATA to use

Pros: Paired with a Z68 chipset, this new Intel Rapid Storage technology is sweet!

Cons: Small size for the price...

Pros: easy install and setup, amazing speed, hastle free ssd performance, intel quality, convenient, convenient, convenient

Cons: price for gb is kinda high? but this isnt a normal ssd

Overall Review: its just really convenient. install your os and aps on one drive. use chasch drive on it and BOOM you have 1/4 the load times. fast awesome. nuff said

Pros: Fits in an mSATA port and makes use of that.

Cons: slc instead of mlc is a good story but just get a marvell controller and solve all the real problems.

Overall Review: Crucial M4 looks good and has a long track record.

Pros: When it functioned normally, it worked great. Great speed in use with regular hard drive. Pretty quick read and write rates for this type of ssd. SLC (to me it is a pro..) Very compact seemed well built, but...

Cons: Will not function properly right after the 30 day return window goes out... Highly overrated when the price per Gb and other important factors are considered... Raid 0 array doesn't have great redundancy, but is good for performance, thus that is why "caching" exists... Not as good, and is more expensive than just putting the entire OS on an SSD and using it as the primary drive (I mean if you need extra space it is easy to add another drive and use it as a data drive...). Price per Gb is getting lower and lower on these just as it is with RAM. You could get 100 more Gigs for almost the same price for a Regular sata III SSD...

Overall Review: I installed it on a GIGABYTE GA-Z68XP-UD3 motherboard. The setup went smoothly as I used the ez smart response to set up the caching. The drive was working great until recently, I noticed that the srt wasn't enabling as it usually does (prior to this, I setup the acceleration on the intel software, of course). It was running perfect for 20 days or so, then something happened and I just kept getting blue screens. I tried updating the bios and setting it up a couple of different ways, but the drive just causes constant BSODs and sometimes the drive doesn't even exist...weird lol. Something new in my book of IT trials...I think I am just going to go ahead and buy a regular ssd instead of using raid...I don't like striping when I don't have too, plus I could get 100 more gigs for about the same price as this little 20Gb mSATA drive...After what happened to me and now that I've considered the other options, I've come to a better conclusion about smart response technology...