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August 23, 2010

Handling The Truth About Solid State Drives

By Michael Marr

The Tech Report came out with a detailed comparison of SSDs and traditional HDDs. Warning: you may not be able to handle the truth.

With a strong representation of the cream of the crop in both SSDs and traditional hard drives, the benchmarks began. TR's testing was certainly thorough, covering a wide range of benchmarking programs and their own in-house tests. They compiled their results into various graphs, and, by doing so, gave an accurate graphical representation of said results. The final report spans pages, and is not worth going over in full detail here. However, The Tech Report's assertions about these results were an earth shattering blow against many's SSD beliefs: boot-up times are not significantly faster. However, a few flaws exist in their tests:

1) Clean Installs. There appears to be no information concerning anything to fragment the hard drive. The benchmarks used for random seeks is where the SSDs excelled the most in this group of tests, and that result is consistent with the actual SSD technology. I noticed an immediate improvement when I first installed my SSD, however, the boot-up times not only...

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