Works nicely in Ubuntu 10.10, though apparently less nicely on earlier versions (problems booting from fakeRAID).
The amusing thing about the SSD is that the controller is compressing all the data it writes to the drive. So you get 540MB/s speeds for reading a file full of zeroes but just 300MB/s for reading a file full of MP3. Write speeds are 475MB/s for zeroes, 300MB/s for MP3s.
A random access 4kiB read takes around 0.26 ms, for a 16MB/s random read speed. But you can do around 8 random reads in parallel, which gets you a 117MB/s random read speed. My 7200 RPM disks can do around 75MB/s with a streaming read, so 117MB/s random access speed is absolutely nuts.
Parallel reads are kinda hard to program though. You could spawn a bunch of threads and do a gather into a shared array I suppose, though that feels a bit heavy (hah, right. I expect the threading overhead to be negligible.) Do the reads from a shared mmap of the file, each thread reading its own segments off it? [edit: no, mmap apparently serializes its page faults or OpenMP doesn't run the threads in parallel]
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