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Attack of the 50 foot Roundup of Solid-State Drives
by Jason Mosley on August 18, 2008

The guys from Tom’s Hardware have a lot of time and solid-state drives on their hands. They compiled a list of 14 SSDs and compared them. In the end, they feel (just like I do), that SSD isn’t really the best choice right now. The technology is still too new and expensive, so the benefits do not justify the cost — yet.

If you’re dying to know and really don’t want to read the whole thing, let me save you some time. All of them are pretty evenly matched. The only difference is that some of them are faster at reading/writing and others are more energy efficient — but never by that much.

The only one Tom’s Hardware thought was really worthwhile was Samsung’s 64 GB SSD SATA-2 drive, which was the complete package at a reasonable cost. I hope the 128GB ones perform as well.

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  • Slightly confused as to why a technology that is over 20 years old is too new, too costly sure - always has been…

  • Hi Jason,
    We, PhotoFast, a leading manufacturer of Flash storage solutions,announced that we’re going to release a series of solid state drives (SSDs) named G-Monster.G-Monster-V2 , which is able to support the capacities up to 256GB
    and support 1.5/3.0Gbps SATA I/II interface with read speed up to 230mb, write speed up to 160mb.
    we would like to provide you more its informaiton, would you mind providing us your email?
    many thanks!

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