Scandal around SSD-storage

SSD-drive manufacturers advertise their devices as a more economical and productive, compared with the classic hard disks. At first glance, this is a very logical - used in SSD flash memory, while the HDD is motor mechanic heads, that is pure electronics SSD opposed Mechanics and Electrical filling the hard drive. However, the results of several tests showed startling results.

So in June laboratory test THG, tested, discovered that some SSD-discs may even reduce the time for a whole hour of work from a laptop battery. Published scandalous results of a strong chain reaction and a lot of comments both on the part of users and potential buyers, and from the mill producers. Analysts THG came to the conclusion that in general, the SSD, compared with the classical HDD is a sufficiently large number of deficiencies, and above all, as a matter of great efficiency, productivity and SSD, that is the most advertised benefits. In addition, recent capacity hard drives for notebook PCs has already reached 500 GB and in the near future we will see more comprehensive model, with even more impressive performance of productivity and efficiency, and SSD large volumes are still very expensive commodity.

Scandal around article and the results of testing, which began in June, served as a motive for another test and change some practices. As a result, specialists THG able to test and some other models of drives, which have shown very interesting results. In particular, the model OCZ Flash SSD performance in tests spared even known of its high-performance drive from SSD-Mtron, and the effectiveness of energy consumption from the disk OCZ has been extremely good. And, of course, the disk of OCZ outstripped conventional hard drives. But with this model and the situation can not be viewed lightly.

Test results are given in the article, make the following conclusions: SSD-drives for flash memory has not yet disclosed its full potential, some of them will lead to more rapid spending in the laptop battery charge. This applies to scenarios where the load is not the peak, that is, when playing a DVD drive is idle or when long intervals. The other scenarios clearly show that SSD-drives, not even the most successful, are more effective under stress. The general conclusion of the article rather scandals: specialists recommend that THG did not blindly buy SSD-drives to flash memory, not knowing their characteristics on productivity and energy consumption. SSD does not always increase the time of autonomous work, and better energy efficiency comes when appropriate SSD-drive is used for a suitable script. Therefore, SSD-drives can not be described as a panacea for productivity, and on efficiency. The results of tests and analytics on the SSD-drive you can find in the material “The truth about the SSD-drives, Part II” on the pages of THG under the heading “Memory”.