<story><title>Coding Horror: The State of Solid State Hard Drives</title><url>http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001304.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spudlyo</author><text>From the article:&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;i&gt;The new Indilinx controller models, such as this Crucial 128 GB SSD, are just as fast as the X25-M. And, best of all, they&apos;re cheaper, while also offering a not-insubstantial bump to 128 GB of storage!&lt;/i&gt;&quot;&lt;p&gt;This kind of hand waving irritates me to no end.  There are a ton of different ways of measuring i/o performance, and I&apos;m sure the author knows this.  To say that the Indilinx based SSD drives are &quot;just as fast&quot; as the Intel SSDs is simply not true.  Let&apos;s take my favorite way of measuring drive performance, 4KB random write speed.&lt;p&gt;Intel: 5923 IOPS (23.1 MB/s)&lt;p&gt;Indilinx: 1275 IOPS (6.47 MB/s)&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3535&amp;#38;p=3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3535&amp;#38;p=3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Granted this article is a few months old, perhaps the firmware for the Indilinx controller has gotten faster, or perhaps the Crucial 128GB drive uses a different Indilinx controller than the &apos;barefoot&apos; model profiled in the article, but I doubt it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Coding Horror: The State of Solid State Hard Drives</title><url>http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001304.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>boredguy8</author><text>If you&apos;re interested in a comprehensive review and understanding why the early drives had some problems, visit the extensive review by Anand Lal Shimpi over at AnandTech: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3531&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3531&lt;/a&gt;. I liked their site before this review, but the detail and writing made me add their name to my &apos;weekly visit&apos; list.</text></comment>