Thanks!! *
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Yes, i heard from a few others a score of 305.99 is impressive. The secret is indeed its brand new. It cost me an arm and a leg to afford, but I went with the top of the end Intel 160 GB G2 SSD. It originally came with an earlier firmware and I wasn't scoring so high in Xbench, but once i updated to 02HD, I firmly clock over 305+ in Xbench, with 13 second boot-ups (even under 10.6.3)

Yes, i'm dreading the eventually slowdown from normal-use fragmentation. Actually, about your strategy to secure erase once or twice a year to return it to virgin pristine performance, I debunked that theory in another thread.
That does NOT work. Read my post here:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/712557/
(Scroll down towards the end for a long post by me, it is Post
#90)