There is a big variety in speeds for SSDs. Se this (only in Swedish but you can see the speed if you hover the mouse over the product name in MB/s) http://www.prisjakt.nu/kategori.php?l=893
A modern 2TB disk can read and write in 120 MB/s and there are slower SSD drives. Access speed is significantly lower on SSD. David David Jonsson, Sweden, phone callto:+46703000370 On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>wrote: > Terry Blanton wrote: > > As with everything, there are trade-offs: > > http://techreport.com/articles.x/19162 > > > That's very useful. > > Page 7 and 8 make me think there is not much difference in real-world > performance: > > http://techreport.com/articles.x/19162/7 > > Perhaps with a SATA III interface the SSDs would be better. > > Intense multitasking seems to be significantly better with the SSDs: > > http://techreport.com/articles.x/19162/9 > > Obviously they are far ahead in energy efficiency, which is important for > laptops. > > - Jed >

