Benchmarking Cheap SSDs for Fun, No Profit
&gt; The hard drive shows better write throughput and latency as compared to most of the tested SSDs. Yes, except for the initial few minutes where the cheap SSDs tend to be faster (except for the Kingston &amp; Crucial SSDs) but how much does that matter?<p>I love the idea of this article, but it lost me here.<p>“Except for the initial few minutes” is a weird thing to dismiss, since the majority of desktop operations will be done in less than a few minutes. Most are in the span of seconds.<p>The only time someone will typically go past a few minutes of sustained writes is during very large file copy operations. It’s weird to put an emphasis on this relative edge case while downplaying the importance of burst performance.<p>Anyone who has switched from even a fast hard drive to a cheap SSD can see the difference an SSD makes. It’s true that my NAS can sustain higher throughput for longer than a cheap SSD, but it’s much slower at doing directory listings and scanning random files than even the cheap SSDs.