8-Way Solid State Drives Roundup
 

Benchmarking solid state drives is a highly exciting venture as it is always unpredictable and prone to produce heaps of new information. With hard disk drives, dramatic innovations occur but rarely and you often can foretell how the particular model is going to perform in general whereas each new SSD is a real mystery as yet.


They vary in performance so wildly due to the current variation in controllers and firmware that the specifications can give you not a vaguest idea of whether the given model is going to challenge the best in its product category or join the outsiders. Besides, we have not yet actually found an ideal SSD. Some of them are better under random-address loads and others boast record-breaking speeds of sequential operations. There are SSDs that present a kind of compromise between the two mentioned extremities, and there are also SSDs whose main advantage is in their relatively low price.

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