Normally I don’t bother with narrow minded guest posts such as this one and I cannot explain why I am with this one.
Anyway … we do buy a lot of hardware but you cannot expect us to buy everything we need, I would be broke within a month. We have to draw the line somewhere.
“Even if you did have to return a loaner drive don't you have its testing specs on hand?”
Yes if you look back at older SSD reviews we did include it. The obvious issue being that we have updated most of the software and methods that we use to test with to bring a more complete review … oops.
“This seams like an incomplete analysis designed to give an incomplete, misleading, view of what is available in the market.”
Yeah its wildly incomplete, its missing an Intel drive. We have the OCZ Vertex 2 Pro 100GB representing SandForce and the Crucial C300 which is pretty much the fastest MLC SSD available, yet it’s an incomplete analysis designed to give an incomplete, misleading, view of what is available in the market, yep you got me.
On a side note why would we include the X25-E? This is an enterprise drive that uses SLC memory, the 32GB version costs more than most drives featured in this article. Now that would be misleading...