On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 01:32:16PM +0200, Gaël DONVAL wrote: > Le vendredi 24 août 2012 à 12:04 +0100, Darac Marjal a écrit : > > I might be wrong here, but isn't the key benefit of SSDs that they have > > a tiny access time? But that their read speed is about the same as a > > normal disk (also, I might be wrong, but I understand their write speed > > is average). > This would have been true some years ago: > > Comparison of average sequential reading rates (HDD of 2012 and SSD of > 2011): > http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/ssd-charts-2011/AS-SSD-Sequential-Read,2782.html > http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/hdd-charts-2012/-01-Read-Throughput-Average-h2benchw-3.16,2901.html > > Please note that I compared SSD with desktop HDD: mobile HDDs are > generally slower. > > About write speed, the very best HDD gave 164.06MB/s on average while > *most* SSDs are above 150MB/s and the best reaches a few MB/s less than > 400.
Ah, my knowledge was out of date. I'll try and squirrel away that factoid :)
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