Is A SATA 3Gb/s Platform Still Worth Upgrading With An SSD?

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Results: 512 KB Random Read And Write Performance

Reading and writing 512 KB chunks of data is quite a bit quicker on the 6 Gb/s SATA interface than the 3 Gb/s port. Western Digital's VelociRaptor makes up some ground in the write test, but it still lags way behind even the bottlenecked SSD.

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Summary
  1. Are SSDs Still The Most Noticeable PC Upgrade?
  2. Hardware And Test Setup
  3. Real-World Benchmark System And Software
  4. Results: Sequential Read And Write Performance
  5. Results: Access Time
  6. Results: 4 KB Random Read And Write Performance
  7. Results: 512 KB Random Read And Write Performance
  8. Results: I/O Benchmark Profiles
  9. Results: PCMark 7 And Trace
  10. Results: PCMark Vantage
  11. Results: AS-SSD Copy Benchmark
  12. Results: Overall Performance
  13. Real-World Benchmarks: Booting Up And Shutting Down Windows 8
  14. Real-World Benchmarks: Booting Up Windows 8 And Adobe Photoshop
  15. Real-World Benchmarks: Five Applications
  16. Even With SATA 3Gb/s, An SSD Makes Sense
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Manuel Masiero & Achim Roos
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