[ale] Value SSDs - price/perf

[Greg Freemyer]

All,

What's a good choice for a value SSD for a laptop upgrade?

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With Christmas coming up, I was thinking a SSD for my laptop would be
a good present from my wife!

But looking at the $100 items, I'm not as impressed as I expected to be.

Intel for instance has the Intel X25-V, 40GB for $100.

The write performance is only 35MB/sec (or about 2GB / min).

I can write sequentially to a hdd at about 6GB / min, so that is not
impressive at all.

But I fully realize sequential access is not the key speed for generic
laptop use, and 2 GB/min random access is pretty fast.

Per slide 7 of http://download.intel.com/design/flash/nand/value/prodbrf/X25-V_40GB_Performance_Guide.pdf,
this SSD will make a productivity based workload about 2.44x faster.

The other couple value SSDs I looked at were even lower performing,
but I haven't spent too much time looking yet.

Greg
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