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<blockquote data-quote="Scythe42" data-source="post: 517032" data-attributes="member: 95833">You're right here. Linear read is the most important factor for the &quot;feeled&quot; performance as applications and data files are more close together. You rarely have everything randomly distributed across a drive. When it comes to seek times (and as a consequence to random access) SDDs are way superior because there is no mechanic involved. But this is not what's happening on normal usage unless you deal with a ton of smaller files on a regular basis on which normal HDs are always slow by design.So the faster seek time is what makes most of the performance gain you feel in the end. You will most of the times notice a quicker boot time. But BIOS is still the limiting factor here. But as EFI will become more common and is supported since Vista SP2 this will be thing of the past in a few year anyway. Now give me LightPeak as a universal connector and I'm happy. But that will probably take a few years more if ever adopted across the board.Also a QD1 (see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOPS" target="_blank">IOPS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a> for more on IOPS) benchmark is basically completely useless as it is no real measurement at all. If you go higher on concurrent IOs you see a huge difference between various SDDs and even huge differences on the SSD itself. This is where the command queueing and other stuff of the firmware comes in. The new Intel drives really shine here. These are the first SSDs that live up the hype in my opinion when it comes to performance.Anyway: SSD drives are definitely the future. I think they really taking off when 1GB = 1US.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Scythe42, post: 517032, member: 95833"] You're right here. Linear read is the most important factor for the "feeled" performance as applications and data files are more close together. You rarely have everything randomly distributed across a drive. When it comes to seek times (and as a consequence to random access) SDDs are way superior because there is no mechanic involved. But this is not what's happening on normal usage unless you deal with a ton of smaller files on a regular basis on which normal HDs are always slow by design. So the faster seek time is what makes most of the performance gain you feel in the end. You will most of the times notice a quicker boot time. But BIOS is still the limiting factor here. But as EFI will become more common and is supported since Vista SP2 this will be thing of the past in a few year anyway. Now give me LightPeak as a universal connector and I'm happy. But that will probably take a few years more if ever adopted across the board. Also a QD1 (see [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOPS]IOPS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url] for more on IOPS) benchmark is basically completely useless as it is no real measurement at all. If you go higher on concurrent IOs you see a huge difference between various SDDs and even huge differences on the SSD itself. This is where the command queueing and other stuff of the firmware comes in. The new Intel drives really shine here. These are the first SSDs that live up the hype in my opinion when it comes to performance. Anyway: SSD drives are definitely the future. I think they really taking off when 1GB = 1US. [/QUOTE]

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