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A report says the performance gap between solid state drives and high-performance hard disk drives is not that significant.

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by scuzzbono July 17, 2008 1:50 AM PDT
TomsHardware did a thorough benchmark on SSD vs. traditional HD. ( see http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-memoright,1926.html). SSD won hands down.
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by Get_Bent July 17, 2008 12:09 PM PDT
The main problem with SSDs is that they're freakin' expensive! For $649, I could buy a WHOLE laptop, not just a solid-state drive.
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by JR24x7 December 24, 2008 9:15 AM PST
This article doesn't really tell me anything. I would've hoped to see some real metrics or test results. What types of systems were tested? What about processors? Did the SSD performance increase on AMD pc's with direct memory access versus the FSB bottleneck with Intel procs?

Of course the system is going to be the bottleneck - but give us something to go on...
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