Regardless of speed, the big concern with current flash memory is they go bad after about 1 million write cycles, as "flashing" is quite stressful on the oxide layer on the silicon, so if your software gets in a write loop, you could trash the part overnight.
-----Original Message----- From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 1:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Are SSD substantially faster than hard disks? This is off topic, but if anyone has experience with these SSD things, please contact me. Someone told me that the performance improvement is small, and the new 15000 rpm hard disks are actually faster. I find that hard to believe. I cannot find many comparisons. A 2008 NY Times article says an SSD improved overall performance by half and "disk performance increased fivefold" on a Mac laptop. - Jed
