Solid State Drives Compared

Tom's Hardware rounds up 14 Solid State Drives (SSDs). The drives tested were:

• 2.5" Crucial 32 GB
• 3.5" Hama High-Speed 64 GB
• 1.8" Hama 32 GB
• 2.5" Hama High-Speed 32 GB SATA
• 2.5" Hama 32 GB SATA
• 2.5" MemoRight MR25.2-032S 32 GB SATA
• 2.5" MemoRight MR25.2-064S 64 GB SATA
• 3.5" Mtron Pro 7500 32 GB SATA
• 2.5" OCZ 64 GB SATAII
• 2.5" Samsung 64 GB SATA 2
• 2.5" Silicon Power 128 GB SATA
• 2.5" Super Talent Masterdrive MX 60 GB SATA

"... the Samsung 64 GB SSD SATA-2, which is also available from OCZ as the 64 GB SATAII SSD. For those who want it all-high performance and high efficiency-this product is it. No other SATA-based flash SSD shows such low power requirements in idle and when active, and no other flash SSD provides balanced performance across all benchmarks. We hope that more flash SSD products will follow in this category, because only these drives are worth the cost. Samsung's 64 GB SSD SATA-2 and the OCZ 64 GB SATAII SSD receive the Best of Tom's award in the hard drive." [Tom's Hardware | 14-Way SSD Hard Drive Roundup : Flash SSDs Compared]

While the Samsung 64 GB SSD SATA-2 (or OCZ 64 GB SATAII SSD) were the highly recommended drives, those lusting for high performance in an SSD should consider the Single-Level Cell (SLC) drives from MemoRight and Mtron.

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Samsung 64GB SATA-2 Solid State Drive Reviewed

The Samsung 64GB SATA-2 FlashSSD (US$790) is a Solid State Drive (SSD) that features:

• 64GB capacity
• NAND Flash
• 100MB/sec Rated Sequential Read
• 80M/sec Rated Sequential Write
• 1W Operational Power requirement

"Samsung has clearly tried to optimize its new SSD drive for better streaming performance, both read and write. The results show up in the benchmarks. This is one of the most balanced performers we've seen in the still far-from-mature SSD market. ... The new Samsung FlashSSD catches up with the competition in both price and performance-but it's still not mainstream yet. " [ExtremeTech | Samsung 64GB SATA-2 SSD Drives Review]

Maybe when SSDs are already priced more "competitively" against the HDDs, it will gain more popularity among manufacturers, resulting to more users opting for an SSD. Until then, I still prefer hard drives, mainly due to their "more bytes per buck" prices.

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