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Fastest sata II vs solid hdd

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Kestas   11-08-2009 at 01:04:41 PM

How big differnce is between this hard drives?

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Bronze Storage badge cjl   11-08-2009 at 01:50:25 PM
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The fastest SATA is the WD Velociraptor, which, while noticeably faster than most hard drives, cannot hope to compete with a good SSD in almost any area.

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Bronze Storage badge sminlal   11-09-2009 at 12:08:29 AM
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It depends a on what you're looking for. If you want a hard drive that can transfer large blocks of data quickly (ie, copy large files), an SSD is somewhat better than a hard drive at reading, but probably not at writing.

But if you're looking for a drive that can do lots of small random I/Os very fast (which is what's important for booting and starting programs), then an SSD is miles ahead of any hard drive, even hard drives in a RAID array.

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uh_no   11-09-2009 at 03:55:27 AM
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sata is an interface, not a storage medium.

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