Hands-On: A Second mSATA-Based SSD Emerges
When it comes to storage, the 3.5” and 2.5” form factors are most popular. But they're not always suitable for notebooks and netbooks. Samsung is the second vendor to introduce an mSATA-based SSD, after Intel demonstrated its SSD 310 earlier this year.
Benchmark Results: Access Time And I/O Performance
Access times are hardly relevant on SSDs, but they are important on hard drives. Repositioning the read/write head consumes precious time, which you can clearly see in the results. This latency is effectively removed on the SSDs.
Although neither of the two SSD products was designed for server workloads, they show off just how much faster SSDs can be. Getting 20x more I/O operations per seconds is not unusual. We can also see very clearly that the mSATA design by Samsung suffers from the fact that only four of its eight available channels are populated with NAND flash chips.
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