I'm curious how Sandforce is fairing out mentally right about now. They were the hot ticket for performance for the past couple of years, perhaps firmware and reliability both proving to be hit and miss over that time period has left behind that poor of an impression in SSD manufacturers?
Personally, I'll take as much performance as I can get, but something as crucial (no pun intended) as data, I cannot sacrifice reliability, even if a RAID 1/5/10 setup is used. This is where although the Crucial M4 was a bit slower than the blazing fast SF controller products, I respect that Crucial (more so the Marvell controller) took the higher reliability route, even if some speed was sacrificed and posted numbers didn't really "wow" people over.