OWC vs Vertex 3 vs Vertex 3 High IOPS vs Crucial M4

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I recently discovered OWC SSDs which are a serious competitor to the Crucial M4 and Vertex 3 SSDs. Anantech published a great review here:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4315/owc-mercury-extreme-pro-6g-ssd-review-120gb/1

There are no reviews of the V3 high IOPS yet. What do you think? Which SSD drive is the overall best?

Consider the following in no particular order:

1. Reliability
2. Speed
3. Wear leveling recovery / trim performance - long term performance of the drive (they are warrantied for three years)
4. Real world, touch it, feel it benefits - which drive gives the most real-world bang for your buck?
5. Ease of use

So which drive is the overall winner. Remember OCZ has a poor reputation for reliability but that may be because they sell more drives than OWC and Crucial
 
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those that run out and spend the time and money on a z68 will wish they had waited for the x79. 10 x sata3 ports and higher throuput will make it a leap above the current and soon to be released models.

and the limits of sata3 is on a port by port basis. So while each port has a theortical limit of 600MB/s limit.. the chip that controlls it will have a maximum throughput limit much higher than that. Most of the tests that I've seen so far look to be around 3 fast 6G SSD's before it hits the limit.

Also need to keep in mind that SSD still suffers from write speed weaknesses and it may even take more than 4 faster 6G SSD to saturate the sata chips limit from that perspective.