February 8th, 2009SSD (Solid State Drives) Seemed Too Good To Pass Up
Some Background
I recently notice on Amazon a discussion thread of about 15 people saying how absolutely wonderful SSDs are and how the brought new life to their notebook computers. Every one of them raved about the magic this brought into their lives.
Well, after checking out the prices and performance, it seems that right now there are two classes of these drives. It seems there is a first generation drive that performs in the area of 15/40Mbs/sec and ones that perform in the 100/170Mbs/sec. To put this in perspective, when people refer to SATA/150 or SATA/300, the 150 and 300 are the Mbs/sec. With Vista resource manager, you can actually see for yourself how man Mbs/sec you are actually getting. Below is a screen shot showing that.
