Newegg has the Mushkin Enhanced Chronos Deluxe MKNSSDCR240GB-DX 2.5" 240GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive for $180 with free shipping. Features up to 520MB/s write and up to 560MB/s read speeds, TRIM support, and the SandForce SF-2281 SSD processor with unthrottled IOPS firmware.
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Like many SSDs with Sandforce controllers, the reviews of this complain about the thing just disappearing from the system, never to return. Read the reviews, then save yourself some headache and buy a Samsung.
The only reliable drives I've found with Sandforce controllers are the new generation of Intels, and that's only because Intel found and fixed the issues. According to many reviews, they did not share the info with Sandforce, however.
Note that OCZ, the posterboy company for Sandforce controllers, has gone with a different brand in their latest generation of drives.
Go with a Samsung 830 or Intel and never look back.
I'd actually suggest going out and looking at a couple sites that offer reliable hardware reviews. Don't listen to random people who pull "data" from god-only-knows-what orifice. Just do your homework.
Problem is, nobody does reliable hardware reviews anymore. They are lucky to spend a few hours throwing a few synthetic benchmarks at a model, and then they're off to a real job.
With harddrives there is one simple metric that tops all others. Does it lose your data? Look for people complaining about "BSOD" (which comes from NTFS metadata readin' different than it wrote), corruption, and outright death. Eight megabytes seems to be a magic number with Intel, even Samsung has pulled baconers like corrupting non-DOS partition tables. The only certain thing is that OCZ cannot do anything right, ever.
In conclusion, backups and condoms every time (Or data abstinence for the Amish).