The OCZ drives are fantastic. I'm running a Vertex 3 right now, which rates at about 60,000 IOPS. It was a replacement for a short lived Crucial.

This is entirely anecdotal, and by no means a smear against Crucial I put a Crucial into my laptop the day before departing on a 3 month business trip to Europe last year.

By the time I got to London, the drive had failed utterly and completely. Thankfully, I had stuffed my previous drive into my bag with me and was able to recover.

I replaced it with the OCZ ( It amuses me that my time in London has made me hear that in my head as "Oh Cee Zed" ... I believe they have an even better Vertex 4 now ) and it has been a rock solid workhorse.

I've since hauled that laptop + drive over about 120k miles and 15 countries without so much as a blip.

Again, anecdotal but I adore this drive.