Performance Showdown - SSDs vs. HDDs

Lucas123 writes "Computerworld compared four disks, two popular solid state drives and two Seagate mechanical drives, for read/write performance, bootup speed, CPU utilization and other metrics. The question asked by the reviewer is whether it's worth spending an additional $550 for a SSD in your PC/laptop or to plunk down the extra $1,300 for an SSD-equipped MacBook Air? The answer is a resounding No. From the story: "Neither of the SSDs fared very well when having data copied to them. Crucial (SSD) needed 243 seconds and Ridata (SSD) took 264.5 seconds. The Momentus and Barracuda hard drives shaved nearly a full minute from those times at 185 seconds. In the other direction, copying the data from the drives, Crucial sprinted ahead at 130.7 seconds, but the mechanical Momentus drive wasn't far behind at 144.7 seconds."

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Re:How Flash SSDs Work and How They Can Work Bette

[Chandon Seldon]

It also appears to be an "invention", and thus my patent lawyer is well paid.

Good job. Now

1. No one will use your stuff.
2. There's a legal obstacle to anyone else trying to solve the same problem.

So... if your actions have any effect at all, it will be to delay the development of software that effectively uses SSDs.