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"(although I do salivate at the thought of a top-tier 64GB SSD boot drive + 1TB data drive in optical drive bay)." SSDs are interesting in that they get faster
by phamilton 16y ago
"(although I do salivate at the thought of a top-tier 64GB SSD boot drive + 1TB data drive in optical drive bay)."
SSDs are interesting in that they get faster as they grow in size. top-tier 64GB SSD drives are quite a bit slower (at least in write speeds) than their 128GB counterparts, which are slower than their 256GB counterparts. Write speeds scale almost linearly with size.
I'd salivate for something a little quicker.
- gamble 16y agoIt's more correct to say that their speed scales with the number of flash chips. The larger drives are faster because more of the controller's channels are populated. A larger drive that has fewer flash chips because it uses a new fabrication process can be slower than a smaller drive built using previous-generation chips.
- dasil003 16y agoWhen I bought my 160GB Intel X25, my understanding at the time was that the fastest SSD available was a more expensive 64GB drive. I haven't looked at the landscape for a while now though.