Thursday, July 23, 2009
Flash/SSD drive comparison
This is a totally unscientific comparison of two drives, one is a Solid State Drive which works both as internal or external USB/SATA, and a traditional "keychain" flash drive, both have the same capacity of 32GB and formatted as FAT32.
| Name | bought | for | Read | Write |
| Cavalry Pelican 32GB ssd | Dec'08 | $80 | 28.42 | 21.81 |
| Kingston 32GB DataTraveler 120 USB Flash Drive | July'09 | $62 | 16.26 | 11.93 |
Read/Write speed is given in MB/s. 1 MB = 1048576 bytes.
Conclusion:
- SSD is roughly 75% faster;
- In both instances, reading speed is about 33% faster than writing speed.
Labels: hardware
# posted by Kostya @ 1:12 PM 
