Fredrik Eriksson wrote:

> With an actual hard disk with actual platters you would be lucky to get 
> a sustained transfer rate of 100 MB/s (1 Gb/s). Burst rates can be much 
> higher, though.
> 
> SSD is another matter. The good ones can have sustained transfer rates 
> that push the limits of SATA/300.

I read some benchmarks from Tom's Hardware which suggested that 
expensive magnetic drives can actually beat cheap SSD in some cases, in 
terms of transfer rate and/or power consumption.

This utterly boggles my mind.

(Unless they're talking about *write* speed, which is the only real 
weakness of SSD, AFAIK...)

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