Do you have any links that would show that an SSD was tuned solely for benchmark purposes? I know people have found such things in GPU market but I've never heard about such claims in SSD market.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9144/crucial-bx100-120gb-250gb...
I was even told that an SSD was made to work consistently over the life span but drop some of these consistency work (i.e. slow downs at start of life) and only kick them in after so many power-on-hours so that it will not look bad in benchmarks.
It's a fact of life that customers rely on benchmarks and that vendors cannot educate all customers so the masses out there need to see a good benchmark so that's what gets optimized for.