SSD drive

[lostsoul62]

Aren't all SSD drive the same speed, so does it matter which one you buy as long as it's the size you want?

 

[StrangleHold]

SSDs are the same as mechanical drives. Some are faster then others. Different brands, different controllers, different memory chips and so on.

 

[linkin]

SSD's can be the same from the standpoint of random access time. Compared to mechanical drives, SSD's blitz them across the board.

I'd still be looking for the cheapest, highest capacity drive you can find, from a decent brand.

 

[Geoff]

Aren't all SSD drive the same speed, so does it matter which one you buy as long as it's the size you want?

SSDs are the same as mechanical drives. Some are faster then others. Different brands, different controllers, different memory chips and so on.

Exactly, just like mechanical drives come in different speeds, so do SSD's. More often than not the cheaper SSD's use lower end memory which offers lower read/write speeds than those found in higher end SSD's.

 

[porterjw]

Just keep in mind that even a lower-end SSD will absolutely smoke a higher-end HDD in terms of speed. Once you use one, waiting for a traditional platter drive to spin up will seem like an eternity. Every time I need to access something from my storage drive it just seems like I sit and wait.

 

[beers]

Aren't all SSD drive the same speed, so does it matter which one you buy as long as it's the size you want?

It can vary completely. A quick example, if you cheaped out on a SATA II unit you'd be bus limited to ~270 MB/sec.

You can look at the specs for each drive when buying, they list rated speeds. You'll get a lot of different behavior between drives that use different controllers or different NAND. Some controllers like Sandforce compress data so you'll get differing performance between compressible data and incompressible data.