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photon · 03-11-2010, 01:56 PM

It would likely help noticeably.

The big problem with cheaper drives (and the reason more expensive ones are expensive and so worth while) isn't so much the transfer speeds, it's the random read and random write throughput speeds. A good SSD can have random write and read speeds of 40MB-70MB/s or higher, while a cheap SSD will drop down to single digit transfer rates. See the graphs here: http://www.anandtech.com/storage/sho...spx?i=3757&p=5

However that being said, the overall system performance can still be very good with a cheap SSD, faster than the fastest hard drives, see the graphs on the next page: http://www.anandtech.com/storage/sho...spx?i=3757&p=6

How much of that improvement will you retain by splitting up most files and running just the OS and a few apps off the SSD? Hard to say, I bet there'll be some reviews and articles similar to that soon.

03-11-2010, 01:56 PM	#18
photon The new goggles also do nothing. Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Calgary Exp:	It would likely help noticeably. The big problem with cheaper drives (and the reason more expensive ones are expensive and so worth while) isn't so much the transfer speeds, it's the random read and random write throughput speeds. A good SSD can have random write and read speeds of 40MB-70MB/s or higher, while a cheap SSD will drop down to single digit transfer rates. See the graphs here: http://www.anandtech.com/storage/sho...spx?i=3757&p=5 However that being said, the overall system performance can still be very good with a cheap SSD, faster than the fastest hard drives, see the graphs on the next page: http://www.anandtech.com/storage/sho...spx?i=3757&p=6 How much of that improvement will you retain by splitting up most files and running just the OS and a few apps off the SSD? Hard to say, I bet there'll be some reviews and articles similar to that soon. __________________ Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.