[PCWorld]

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[climber514]

I am totally jazzed about SSD... but would consider waiting for the 64GB ones to hit the vendors. IMHO - Vista performance will benefit from SSDSandisk had some interesting white papers posted on their website detail their own performance testing / comparing HDD with SSD.http://www.sandisk.com/Assets/File/pdf/oem/SanDiskSSDPerformanceFasterRandomReadSpeedTranslatesinto.pdfANDhttp://www.sandisk.com/Assets/File/pdf/oem/SanDiskSSDAMoreReliableAlternativeto.pdfI think all the major manufacturers will soon have SDD as an option. I heard HP has one coming out soon.

[sufeng]

I think there might be a mistake in the data chart.In Fujitsu LifeBook P1610(SSD, Windows Vista Bussiness) 's Worldbench subset--Microsoft Office 2003, SSD version is much slower than the HD version, as we know that "Microsoft Office 2003 " is a very important subset in Worldbench,and maybe take 25% of the total score, I wonder how could SSD get 3 pionts of total score ahead ?Plz chech the raw data record. Thx

[jeffkuta]

[quote name='sufeng']I think there might be a mistake in the data chart.> > In Fujitsu LifeBook P1610(SSD, Windows Vista Bussiness) 's Worldbench subset--Microsoft Office 2003, > > SSD version is much slower than the HD version, as we know that "Microsoft Office 2003 " is a very important subset in Worldbench,and maybe take 25% of the total score, I wonder how could SSD get 3 pionts of total score ahead ?> > Plz chech the raw data record. Thx> > > > Hi Sufeng,The raw data is indeed correct on the chart. While MS Office 2003 is a significant portion of the overall Worldbench6 Beta2 Score, the other applications cannot be forgotten. The Fujitsu with the SSD drive peformed much faster in Nero 7 and WinZip 10. These two applications have nearly the same weight combined as Office, and the SSD drive really shined in these hard drive intensive tests. The SSD completed the Nero test in only one-third the time as the HD and Winzip in three-quarters the time. Therefore to me, it's not surprising WB6B2 is three points faster for SSD.Thanks for your interest in hard drives and the PC World Test Center.Jeffrey KutaData ManagerPC World Test Center

[sufeng]

[quote name='jeffkuta']> {quote:title=sufeng wrote:}{quote}I think there might be a mistake in the data chart.> > > > In Fujitsu LifeBook P1610(SSD, Windows Vista Bussiness) 's Worldbench subset--Microsoft Office 2003, > > > > SSD version is much slower than the HD version, as we know that "Microsoft Office 2003 " is a very important subset in Worldbench,and maybe take 25% of the total score, I wonder how could SSD get 3 pionts of total score ahead ?> > > > Plz chech the raw data record. Thx> > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Sufeng,> > > > The raw data is indeed correct on the chart. While MS Office 2003 is a significant portion of the overall Worldbench6 Beta2 Score, the other applications cannot be forgotten. The Fujitsu with the SSD drive peformed much faster in Nero 7 and WinZip 10. These two applications have nearly the same weight combined as Office, and the SSD drive really shined in these hard drive intensive tests. The SSD completed the Nero test in only one-third the time as the HD and Winzip in three-quarters the time. Therefore to me, it's not surprising WB6B2 is three points faster for SSD.> > > > Thanks for your interest in hard drives and the PC World Test Center.> > > > Jeffrey Kuta> > Data Manager> > PC World Test CenterThank you, got it.

[Cosmo]

What the article fails to mention is that flash has a very limited write/rewrite life and will fail long before a standard disc hard drive.

[auresi]

Why did you not use a faster 7200RPM HD? They are widely available. The 4200RPM HDs are almost obsolete right now and few mainstream manufacturers use them now except in their low-end models.

[ImaPhake]

[quote name='auresi']Why did you not use a faster 7200RPM HD? They are widely available. The 4200RPM HDs are almost obsolete right now and few mainstream manufacturers use them now except in their low-end models.Not in the 1.8-inch form-factor.If you check the Hitachi or Toshiba Web sites you will see that all of their 1.8-inch HDDs do not exceed 4200 RPM.2.5-inch HDDs and above are available in 7200 RPM.

[TZRick]

In response to climber514, Vista has built-in SSD optimizations, which is why the performance difference is there over XP.