What feature or features lead the RealSSD C300 to get the editor's choice award over the OCZ Vertex LE?
1) It's a SATA 6Gbps Drive with the fasted read speeds we have ever seen. Some 60-70% of Windows usage is said to be sequential reads and this drive leads the pack
2) The random access read/write performance on the C300 was better overall as shown in IOMeter
3) It is the first SSD that we have seen that supports APM (Advanced Power Management). This is a feature other SSD companies talk about rolling out in their next round of products
4) It's Micron/Intel designed... You can rest assured that the firmware is solid and the controller is not going any place. The OCZ Vertex LE is a limited production run of just 5,000 pieces and the controller company Sandforce is a new comer in the market
5) price... the 256GB C300 is $799 versus $949 at Newegg for the 200GB version of the Vertex LE
6) the OCZ Vertex LE has a toolkit, but we have yet to see a fully working revision of this software as 0.59 is very beta and broken.
In summary... The C300 is using more advanced technologies, is faster, isn't a limited edition product, and it's less expensive with more storage space... That is why I gave the C300 the editor's choice award in a nut shell.
