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Old 02-21-2009, 03:06 PM  
Machete_
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Originally Posted by tiger View Post
Mech drives will still be around for at least a few more years possibly more. If you look at the actual benchmarks most SSD's are very disappointing in performance and failure levels. SSD has a lot of promise but so far not even close to living up to it. Price is too high, performance gains are not consistent, failure levels on some of these drives are terrible compared to the mech drives and obviously capacity isn't there yet.

you are looking at Gen2. You should look a the specs of Gen3 from Sandisk

From their own promo:
Gen 3 has the performance equivalent of a 40,000 RPM conventional drive ? 5x faster than today?s laptop drives, 2x faster boot, 10x faster app launch ? faster than any SSD out there in PC market today

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