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posted on 21 July 2008 07:26

Endgadget reports on a speed comparison in which an OCZ solid state drive (SSD) beat a Western Digital Velociraptor hard drive.

The OCZ Core Series SATA II 64GB SSD was tested against a WD VelociRaptor. The OCZ was rated at averages of 140MB/sec read speed and 87MB/sec write speed in the tests compared to the Velociraptor's 136MB/sec read and 134MB/sec write speeds.

However the SSD was up to five times faster than the HDD in gaming, photo import and Vista startup.

This comparison joins other recent SSD-HDD comparisons such as:-

- IDC being coy about SSD-HDD comparison
- Flash SSDs lower notebook battery life 
- Missing the flash point.

What seems to be emerging is a view that the faster SSDs with the better controllers have an application performance profile for disk-intensive work that is much better than a hard drive. It would be interesting to see performance data for short-stroked Fibre Channel drives versus SSD drives.

^{[Martin Edwards, news writer.]}