The Intel SSD 510 Review

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• masterkritiker - Wednesday, March 2, 2011 - link

  When will we be able to buy $100+ SSDs @ 1TB capacity?

• gammaray - Wednesday, March 2, 2011 - link

  never

• tno - Thursday, March 3, 2011 - link

  +1

• Nihility - Thursday, March 3, 2011 - link

  At least 4 years.

• ionis - Wednesday, March 2, 2011 - link

  It would be nice if some HDDs were also included in workload benches. They were in the random read/write benches so I don't get why they were left out of the other ones.

• dagamer34 - Wednesday, March 2, 2011 - link

  HDDs aren't included because they'd throw off the scale pretty horribly. The number labeling the performance would be larger than the bar itself compared to all the other SSDs out there.

• ionis - Thursday, March 3, 2011 - link

  I find that hard to believe, considering they were included in the random read/write graphs at 1/100 or less of the performance of some of the SSDs and the charts weren't scaled horribly.
  
  In the sequential reads/writes, they performed at 25%-80% which doesn't through the scale off much at all.
  
  The heavy workload looked to involve a lot of sequential access (installs and downloads). So again, I don't see why they weren't included.
  
  There are also other comments asking for more HDDs in the benches. For people like myself, who didn't start following storage benchmarks until SSDs came out, it's hard to tell what the performance gain is.

• ionis - Thursday, March 3, 2011 - link

  I find that hard to believe, considering they were included in the random read/write graphs at 1/100 or less of the performance of some of the SSDs and the charts weren't scaled horribly.
  
  In the sequential reads/writes, they performed at 25%-80% which doesn't throw the scale off much at all.
  
  The heavy workload looked to involve a lot of sequential access (installs and downloads). So again, I don't see why they weren't included.
  
  There are also other comments asking for more HDDs in the benches. For people like myself, who didn't start following storage benchmarks until SSDs came out, it's hard to tell what the performance gain is.
  
  (sorry if double post, comment didn't seem to show up 1st time)

• mateus1987 - Wednesday, March 2, 2011 - link

  now you know.
  http://nzealander.blog.com/files/2011/03/6661.jpg

• mateus1987 - Wednesday, March 2, 2011 - link

  the satanic Apple logo.
  
  http://nzealander.blog.com/files/2011/03/6661.jpg