[ColonelOne]

I am looking into SSD's and had a question. How does their speed compare with conventional hard drives? i.e. how would an SSD compare with a 15000 rpm hard drive?

ColonelOne

[noop]

SSD's are still new technology. If you want one, be prepared to keep watching for firmware updates. As for speeds, they are very fast. I cannot give an exact speed since they do vary, but I have two drives in a raid array, and do about 300MB/s write and 400MB/s read, but I have seen some SSDs with slower speeds than normal HDDs.

If you are concerned with reliability, I would probably go with the HDD than the SSD since the SSDs are still new technology.
noop

[ColonelOne]

noop, on 22 February 2010 - 02:10 AM, said:

SSD's are still new technology. If you want one, be prepared to keep watching for firmware updates. As for speeds, they are very fast. I cannot give an exact speed since they do vary, but I have two drives in a raid array, and do about 300MB/s write and 400MB/s read, but I have seen some SSDs with slower speeds than normal HDDs.

If you are concerned with reliability, I would probably go with the HDD than the SSD since the SSDs are still new technology.
noop

Thanks noop, makes sense to me, how long do you think it will be before SSD's are as cheap and reliable as HDD's are now?

[noop]

3-5 years is my guess, but I have no idea lol

noop