I don't think they can come to an agreement that they should sell at this price which is higher. There exists a monopoly between the big players like Seagate and Western Digital but they are almost equal, not the 90/10 kind of  monopoly we would see with Intel/AMD. HDD vendors are still competing with each other and sooner or later they will reduce the price to cut each other.

They price it so high, it has a domino effect on other vendors as well. OEMs that make laptops would either have to profit less or pass down the costs to the consumer, both of which they do not want. They would surely want their profit to increase as well and passing down the costs would only make it more expensive and less likely for someone to buy it. SSDs with increasing capacity are posing a threat to HDDs and it is only a matter of time when we would reach to a point where a reasonably priced SSD at a certain capacity would be a better choice than a HDD, if they decide to be arrogant about it and peg the HDD price sky high.

RM769. Mushkin Callisto Deluxe SATA2. At Viewnet.

I think it is this one: Callisto deluxe 240GB Solid State Drive - MKNSSDCL240GB-DX, SF-1200 controller

Otherwise it may be this one: Callisto deluxe 25nm 240GB Solid State Drive - MKNSSDCL240GB-DX2, SF-1222 controller

The current SF controller version is SF-2281. The versions before SF-2281 were plagued with reports of BSODs. Do you feel lucky?

I do not know. I haven't heard of any news that all the bugs in the old SF controllers have been killed.

Got links?

In any case, it is up to the individual. I'm pretty sure that there are hundreds of thousands of satisfied SF-1200 users, otherwise OCZ and a lot of other SSD manufacturers would have closed shop by now. But I am not willing nor desperate enough to risk it.

It is for good reason though, SandForce royally screwed up with the 2000 series versus firmware issues. And I really do want to make very clear that all latest firmwares are stable, for any vendor. But that doesn't mean that the word isn't out and thus the reputation of that controller is simply dented, keeping potential consumers away. The rise and shine of the Crucial M4 series is the perfect example of that, people purchasing the 100% stable product albeit compromising a little on performance

i bought a archgon hdd docking (MH–3507 FUSION) earlier, its running on usb 3. but no matter what disk i put in..the transfer rate is also around 7mb/s.
surely not my usb port problem, because my usb3 thumb drive transfer at 50mb+/s..

is that a false advertisement? anyone using ar?

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Added on August 18, 2012, 7:25 pm

i have also bought a 500gb blue, < 2 weeks old...now cannot be detected although it still spin...and got some noise coming out of it...i bought it based on my past exp with WD drives...i guess they dont make good drives anymore...