Solid State Drive Performance Comparison Guide

The solid state drive (SSD) is a new and relatively niche storage medium, but one that is slowly but steadily eating away at the universality of the hard disk drive. After all, solid state drives offer some big advantages over hard disk drives - extremely fast random accesses, absolutely silent operation, ability to withstand tremendous amounts of shock, vibration and atmospheric pressure (or the lack thereof).

Of course, this doesn't spell the end of the ubiquitous hard disk drive. In fact, the hard disk drive is expected to soldier on for the next few decades thanks to the industry's ability to continuously innovate to keep ahead of the curve. Until solid state drives can deliver the hard disk drive's ultra-low cost per MB and cavernous storage capacity, the hard disk drive is here to stay.

As far as solid state drive enthusiasts are concerned though, the high cost and low storage capacities are just niggling issues, worthy of nothing more than a snort or two. Anyone who can afford a solid state drive expects blazing throughputs and super-fast access times. This is where the Solid State Drive Performance Comparison Guide comes in.

This comparison guide will compare the performance of all the solid state drives we can get our hands on. This would be similar to our Hard Disk Drive Performance Comparison Guide. It may start off small, but we intend to keep adding new solid state drives and even new benchmarks as we go along. Let's take a look at the solid state drives we have rounded up for this comparison.

The Solid State Drives

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