On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:12:20 +0100, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>
> 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...)

Most cheap SSDs are crap. Some have been shown to have worst-case  
access-times of up to a half-second. A good SSD will beat any magnetic  
disk hands down.



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