It's a good and fast drive, but because it uses the latest Sandforce controller, it has problems with Intel's chipsets for Sandy Bridge (resulting in system pauses and hangs). If you have one of those, make sure to install the latest firmware for the Vertex 3, which seems to fix it. If possible, do this while the drive hasn't been used as boot device or otherwise, i'll have to go through all the hassle that i had to...