As time goes by technology improves. It's inevitable that what started out as a great idea with a lot of promise, finally starts to live up to the hype. SATA3.0 is one of the newer technologies that show promise, but is not quite there with some of the implementations. Some early adoptions, as seen with the Seagate 2TB drives do still show that promise. Early solid state drives had problems but with the introduction of new controllers. Many of the problems, such as stuttering and poor write speeds, have now been addressed. This drive from Mushkin is is part of their Io series of Solid State Drives that includes drive capacities from 64GB on up to 256GB and features read speeds from 230MB/sec on the 64GB model, to 250MB/sec on both the 128 and 256GB models. Write speeds range from 150MB/sec on the 64GB version and 180GB/sec for the 128GB and 256GB models. The 128GB Io drive is built using NAND flash technology and uses the INDILINKS "Barefoot" controller instead of the JMicron or Samsung controllers used on other solid state drives. How will this impact performance? The last drive OCC looked at that had this controller was from Patriot and it did indeed show some promise. Let's see how this offering from Mushkin compares.