I have just tested the 250mbs Intel drives alongside an Mtron 7500 and Core OCZ ( advertised at 170mbs) SSD, and to be honest, there is a very small difference in performance in our application.

Using a 3.2ghz MacPRO with 8800GT graphics card, compared to an Mtron and OCZ SSD drive, the Intel only managed one layer more of content when tested on AIC movies ranging from 1920 x 1080 to 720 x 576.

And the 80gb Intel is over double the price of a 128gb OCZ - at present, not worth the extra money for less capacity and only one layer performance increase.

As Richard said in a post elsewhere, the bottleneck has now moved from the hard drive to elsewhere in the computer.

Nev.