What makes you a geek?

[Lissa]

What article? What benchmark (many benchmarks are extremely throughput centric, often sequential centric, where IO meter, with intelligent weighting of the various types of transactions is usually the most representative of actual usage)? Were these Intel SSDs before the major firmware revision 6 months ago that significantly boosted they're non-sequential performance? Were they drives so old that they aren't representative of current SSD drives?

Show me.

At this point I'm pretty certain that you aren't knowledgeable enough on the subject to have a valid opinion, I just want to see what article fed you misinformation so well that you're willing to ignore all that I've presented.

Here's one of the articles from there, take a close look at it before you keep touting that SSDs blow spindel drives out of the water.

SAS RAID vs. Mitron and Samsung controller SSDs

I can't find the other right now that was directly an Intel 80-M vs. the pair of Raptors, but as you can see from the above article, more often than not, the spindel drives had higher I/O than the SSDs when placed into a RAID configuration.