What makes you a geek?

[Lissa]

Again, where are the orders of magnitude? 50/200 is 1/4, not even one order of magnitude. Why are you using numbers that don't even support your claims? You disprove yourself in your own writing, if an attempt at humor, it's not terrible, but an attempt at serious claims? At least it's still humorous.

And your claim is that rotating storage drops less from sequential to non-sequential than SSD? That's simply not true. That's the whole advantage of SSD, non-sequential transfers are fast due to seek times that are an actual order of magnitude (not your incorrect definition, but the real definition of order of magnitude) lower than rotating storage.

Again, the AT link shows rotating storage both dropping more and having overall performance less than SSD when comparing sequential and random throughput. If you wish to convince me otherwise, you're going to have to stop making things up and show me a link that has rotating drive and SSD benchmarks demonstrating a counterexample to the AT review. Because the Tom's SSD reviews don't have rotating drive comparsions, so don't support what you've said and the most recent AT review certainly doesn't support what you've said. Where are you seeing data to support what you're arguing, I don't see it. Show me.

Then how do you explain tests performed by a reputable hardware site showed that when doing random reads that an SSD was little better than two RAID 0 spindled drives? The numbers quoted by Tom's was literally a less than 10% difference between the SSD and the two RAID 0 spindled drives (WD Raptors in this case). How do you sit there and say that the difference is huge? I remember the numbers shown by Tom's was something like an I/O of about 110 for the SSD and the RAID 0 Raptors was about 100 to 105. Care to revise you claim that SSDs on random reads/writes are light years ahead of RAID 0 drives?

Simply put, there just isn't the price to performance ratio at this time to warrant SSDs. Maybe when SSDs dropped by about half their present price per G they'd be worth it, but right now they're just too expensive to warrant it when putting some drives in a RAID 0 can keep up.