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The recent Anandtech article proved that no ssd is worth buying other than the OCZ Vertex and Intel one's. The other's can provide good sequential transfer rates, but actually provide POORER random transfer rates than traditional hard drives. And small random writes is what keeps happening in background when you use your system. You'll see a lot of stuttering and pausing.

The problem is with the JMicron controller. You should avoid all SSD's using it. They are cheap, but they're slower than traditional hard drives except while copying large files. Even dual JMicron controller doesn't solve the problem. OCZ is the best option since it's cheaper than Intel's solution and doesn't suffer with these problems. Intel's solution is costlier, but it's also much faster.

It's a huge 31-page article, if you want you can read it here:

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531