I have question about their speed. Now I know they switched to asynchronous nand which has really impacted the performance in a bad way but pretend that didn't happen. So those ssd are rated at 450mb/s read and write. If you have ever seen a box for those ssd they have in big letters 10X TIMES FASTER ( then a normal 7200rpm drive). But if it reads and writes are 450mb/s and my segate 1tb reads and writes is about 170mb/s how can it be 10x times faster?
The older v300's where faster a lot faster i have 4 in differnt pc's and laptop's and thay can all hit over 400mb/s R/W (apart from my old crap-top as its has a sata 2 controller) the newer ones are garbage and should be avoided thay are now the worst perfoming SSD drive around.
The x10 times faster is referred to the iop's or random operations per second and not the drives theoretical top R/W speed.
Even those cut down lowest of low budget models are indeed a lot faster than harddrives thanks to their not being dependant on the limits of mechanics. Newcomers to SSD's should look at how much faster their systems behave overall rather than just running some benchmark and look at whatever numbers are spouted out. And the numbers cited by the manufacturers means very little, since they measure with very different methods. Still relying on a mechanical drive can indeed make the system ten times slower in some situations, like when installing sizeable system updates and such. Personally I just hate having to service a system where most of the time is spent waiting for a mechanical drive to carry out menial tasks at snails pace.
Today the V300 series have gotten largely irrelevant too, as there are comparably priced alternatives from manufacturers like Crucial that offer more consistent performance. And just nudging up slightly on the price ladder one can get drives like the Samsung 840 EVO series, drives which are as fast as even quite decent home gaming systems can make use of, where their relative limitation on write speed performance matters much less than in workstations or servers.
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