Slc Ssd
Posted on Monday, January 7th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Does a full SSD still perform faster than two RAID’d 10,000rpm Velociraptors?
I know an SSD’s performance/speed decreases as the drive gets fuller with data, but even when that happens, is a full SSD still faster than two RAID’d Western Digital Velociraptors going at 10,000 RPM’s through a SATA 3.0GB/sec interface?
I’m mainly eye’ing the Intel MLC and SLC SSD’s b/c Intel has the best SSD’s on the market right now (it could change in the future, tho).
With a full SSD doing read/write commands, you lose about 40% of the performance of the drive. However, even comparing a full IBM X-25 SSD against a Velociraptor, the SSD performs about 8 times faster. Even in a RAID0, the velociraptors wont match it.
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