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Some months back, Intel's SSD line made press headlines for its performance over other SSD models, performance gained by using new writing techniques to avoid one of the main pitfalls with SSD technology (writing to an area already written to requires an erase before write). After the link is an interesting analysis of the drives in application:

Long-term performance analysis of Intel Mainstream SSDs

(for those who want just the summary, "Sector remap fragmentation" is the result and performance degrades over time.)

Intel can't yet replicate published SSD performance drop

Note that Intel didn't refute the results, just essentially said "We're looking into it..."