While everybody is dreaming of testing or reviewing a SSD, the Japanese website Akiba could get 2 units and decided to compare a RAID 0 volume composed of 2 SSD vs. 2 Raptor and to an i-RAM drive.
If transfer speeds for sequential large files are slower for the RAID 0 SSD when compared to 3.5" plates-based HDs RAID 0, performance for random read/write of small size files are much faster with the solid state unit than the Raptor. Such feature would be very interesting as a system disk, as OS X spends its time to write and read small files. This explains why the Japanese website reports that the system was much more reactive with a RAID 0 SSD than with a RAID 0 Raptor. Ideally, one would need a computer using SSD as a system disk and one or several plate-based HDs as a storage volume for data.
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