[ale] Value SSDs - price/perf

[Greg Clifton]

Greg,
If you don't want to spend a bundle for capacity and performance in a SSD,
take a look at the hybrid drives. They supposed offered something like ~ 80%
performance boost over a regular 7200RPM HDD, and you still get a lot of
capacity for your $

Newegg has 500GB Seagate for ~ $120
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148591&cm_re=hybrid_hard_drive-_-22-148-591-_-Product

GC

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com>wrote:

> All,
>
> What's a good choice for a value SSD for a laptop upgrade?
>
> ===
> With Christmas coming up, I was thinking a SSD for my laptop would be
> a good present from my wife!
>
> But looking at the $100 items, I'm not as impressed as I expected to be.
>
> Intel for instance has the Intel X25-V, 40GB for $100.
>
> The write performance is only 35MB/sec (or about 2GB / min).
>
> I can write sequentially to a hdd at about 6GB / min, so that is not
> impressive at all.
>
> But I fully realize sequential access is not the key speed for generic
> laptop use, and 2 GB/min random access is pretty fast.
>
> Per slide 7 of
> http://download.intel.com/design/flash/nand/value/prodbrf/X25-V_40GB_Performance_Guide.pdf
> ,
> this SSD will make a productivity based workload about 2.44x faster.
>
> The other couple value SSDs I looked at were even lower performing,
> but I haven't spent too much time looking yet.
>
> Greg
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