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This is something I keep meaning to investigate. If you take a top tier consumer SSD vs a bottom barrel brand, for typical usage patterns, is there any meaningf
by 0cf8612b2e1e 4y ago
This is something I keep meaning to investigate. If you take a top tier consumer SSD vs a bottom barrel brand, for typical usage patterns, is there any meaningful performance difference? Maybe boot is a few seconds faster? Caching is more intelligent so Chrome starts faster?
I am sure there could be some measurable differences for prosumer users (compiling code, video editing, etc) but my suspicion is that any SSD is good enough for the majority of people.
- wtallis 4y agoMy expectation is that most desktop users will rarely or never experience a situation where there's a noticeable difference between a fast SSD and a cheap SSD. Storage benchmarks are a lot more sensitive than end-user perceptions of the overall system's responsiveness. Even power users will spend most of their time either not waiting on the storage, or waiting on a storage access pattern that is only moderately faster for a high-end drive. But the metrics that truly matter—responsiveness as perceived by the human user—are also the hardest to accurately measure. Today's entry-level SSDs are faster in pretty much every way than the top of the line from ten years ago. They're definitely "good enough" for most users.