Micron RealSSD C300 vs. HDD—Everyday Tasks

Watch our new RealSSD C300 go head-to-head with a hard drive in everyday tasks.

The C300 drive outperforms every client SSD currently available on the market, which means were absolutely burying typical hard drive scores. To show you how that speed translates to the real world, we pitted our 256GB C300 SSD against a 7200rpm HDD in identical systems. We then tackled a handful of everyday tasks—boot up, file copy, and opening large files in Adobe® Photoshop®.

System Details
MoBo: Intel® X48 chipset based
Processor: Intel Core2Duo E8500
Memory: Micron® 2GB DDR3 1066 (PC3-8500)
OS: Windows® 7 Pro 64-bit

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• SSD Solid State Drive Micron
• Real SSD
• SSD
• Micron
• Micron Technology
• Solid State Drives
• C300

[DCUPtoejuice]

i just found out you can drop files on a program shortcut. Only took 15 years to realize.

[iXW1X]

Micron?!?

CRUCIAL!!!

[Infinitera1n]

thats fast.

[mswindowsinside]

@DCUPtoejuice really? even i knew it

[stefanschroen1994]

what background is that? or what theme did you use?

[nanashi1o3]

@UltraVert yeah ive seen that its really crazy

[UltraVert]

@nanashi1o3

The pci-e drives (although still ssd) are already much faster (than the sata variant), cost a lot more too. There is one that's a 2 terabyte pci-e enterprise grade ssd out that costs 8 thousand dollars o.0

[nanashi1o3]

by the time a 250gb ssd is the same price as a basic hdd there will be something out there thats going to be faster than the ssd

[S0rr0w93]

I know these things are fast and all but I wouldnt pay £400 (average) for 250GB of faster boot, loading, etc (when tbf HDD's are fine, so what if its a few seconds saved) when you can get a standard HDD of that capacity for an average of £20. Thats £380 odd more just to save a few seconds :/

[gunxpected]

@jjd721 That's not really true. The number is more like 10000 write-erase cycles. For a 64gb SSD that would mean you can write 640TB on it. Which would be equal to writing 64Gb/day for more then 25 years. Now I don't know about you but I don't even have HDD's in use that are older then 10 years... let alone 25. Even with 3000 it would still be 8 years.

[jjd721]

u need to be careful with ssd's because they only have a small amount of read/write times. a commercial ssd is about 3000 read/writes that means it can read and write 3000 times after that failure is 100% possible (u can lose all or some data).

[Cr381v3]

what about copying something from ssd to hdd.. do you have to copy from ssd to ssd to experience this speed?