Sandisk Solid State Drive (SSD) - Why is it so fast

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See why SanDisk SSD accesses files so quickly

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• ssd
• hdd
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[xenoalien]

I'm just waiting for a nice price drop...

[SiliconRover]

Without specific benchmarks comparing hard drive and ssd drive performance this is just an example of slick, but meaningless, marketing.

[virginboy92]

@DC180 lol

[virginboy92]

@SiliconRover whats the point of comparing benchmarks when its clearly beyond comparison

[DC180]

@xenoalien still waiting?

[GuyTakashi73]

there are little people in my computer 0_-

[monkeyman1140]

@SiliconRover

Well its obvious that even the slowest SSD will be faster than the fastest single HD. Latency and seek times are the prime reason why hard drives are slow. Burst rates and interface speeds have climbed dramatically, data density has skyrocketed, and rotation speeds have increased, yet the HD is still painfully slow.

SSD's don't have latency or seek times, so that completely eliminates that from the equation.

[monkeyman1140]

I've seen the death of punched cards, the dot matrix printer, the floppy disk, the single core CPU, and the death of the hard drive looks to be quite close.

I won't miss them either, when HD's fail they fail BIG.

[SerpentSouI]

Getting 2 7200rpm hdds in raid0 gives you pretty much the same speed as a SSD for a fraction of the cost

[paccopco]

SSDs are good but HDDs are better... because when you defragment it then it's super faster than before

[andyarceye]

Amazing how its taken around 20 years to achieve what the amiga 600 did, although its faster now the principle is the same solid state storage.

[jograd08]

why don't they make a test on writing speed and life span.. SSD suck on that part.. plus its way expensive for less space.