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Same Silicon Image chip pretending to be a SATA controller, I guess?
The drive is far too expensive to be of interest to most people, it's essentially four Vertex 2's in RAID together except all in one case, although it IS nice to see that they included garbage collection software in the bundle to make up for the lack of TRIM support for RAID configs.
What I'm MUCH more interested in though is the HSDL controller, with such a ridiculously high bandwidth and lower latencies (presuming an integrated solution at some point and not permanently being limited to a PCI-e addon card) it looks extremely promising, and I'm personally hoping it takes off, it has a better chance at least since OCZ are making it available license free for anyone to use, but I can't see SATA just dying without a fight...
Still the crazy thing to think about is with the four port version of HSDL you could connect 4 of these IBIS drives together in RAID, that would give you literally gigabytes of read/write speed, crazy...