Read more.The first products to come out of its March acquisition of SiliconSystems aimed at embedded markets.
Read more.The first products to come out of its March acquisition of SiliconSystems aimed at embedded markets.
"The emphasis has been put on performance and reliability"
Max R/W Speed - 100/80 MB/s![]()
Which if they get that in multiple situations can end up being faster in real world use than a drive claiming 200 MB/s. Read that article at anandtech about SSDs and how they were asked to recommend improvements - one of them was a suggestion to fix a certain type of writing speed, which although pegging back the drive performance under 100MB/s actually produced a faster drive in real world testing.
If I remember correctly though, the issue at the time was to do with drive stutter (which I see more as a 'bug'). Now that the Vertex (and other drive using the same controller/firmware) no longer has that issue, they can once again focus on pushing transfer rate. That said, transfer rate for small files remain on the low side (relative to larger files), so if the WD can somehow improve on that, then perhaps we could see some real world improvement.
^ I doubt b0redom is making comparisons to 7200RPM drives.
Access time between SSD drives are fairly minimal which is why people look at transfer speed. And compared to some exiting drives in this price range, the WD, at least on paper, does not appear to be a speed demon.
(And it's also worth noting that on the same token, there is more to a drive than random access)
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