I would definitely get a drive with the Indilinx Barefoot controller inside it. And probably the Vertex, since it's a well-known quantity now. Or perhaps a $20-$40 cheaper version of it from a competitor. Eg. G.Skill Falcon.

There is one review out there that tries to be particularly negative about the Vertex, because they got turned down for freebies or something. I forget the name of the review site, though, but it's the *only* negative one out there. And if you read it with a bit of logic, one can see right through it all.

EDIT: oh, it was techreport.com. I seem to recall that they made a huge deal out of alignment, blaming the SSD for WinXP misaligning itself on an odd-numbered sector (63) rather than on a 4KB page.

Cheers