Solid State Disk Drives Are Here

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Read Transfer Performance

Sequential read transfer performance is excellent, whether measured by the maximum, average or minimum results. However, things change when gauging the write benchmark results...

Write Transfer Performance

These results show very clearly that write speeds are not a solid-state flash drive's strength. The latest conventional 2.5" hard drives provide better maximum and minimum write transfer performance.

Patrick Schmid
Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.