Wednesday, November 21, 2012
FASTEST SSD ON GUMTREE PNY 120GB solid state drive SATA III 6Gb/s 550Mb/s read 520 Write +
1-2 minutes easy to read :) guide below
So I have for sale
120gb PNY Prevail Elite performance OEM (rated 34-35 out of 3000)
Connectors : SATA III / 6G (commpatible with old connectors too)
Max Read : up to 550 MB/s
Max Write : up to 520 MB/s
Random Read/Write 4KB (Aligned): up to 85,000 IOPS
TRIM support (requires OS support)
Model SSA2S120GC2DE08-T A
Quick Buying Guide for SSD (Solid State Drive) and HDD (Hard Drive).
The market is flooded with cheap and slow versions but luckily now there is enough information available to clear the performance doubts.
SO, what SSD or HDD should I buy?
1st tip SSD is the latest and fastest technology for data storage (and more)
2nd tip LOOK WHAT EXPERTS ARE SAYING
http://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/hdd_list.php is the biggest benchmark result list with more than 3000 models
1st column is the MODEL,
2nd DISK RATING (how many points it has, more is better)
3rd the most important is Rank (considering about everything that is or was on the market) Ranks from 1 to 50 are as good as an Olympic medal
4th is VALUE (for money) very useful but unfortunately incomplete because the
5th PRICE is either incomplete either with prices from EGG.com or amazon.com both Ameriican-versions that don’t deliver to Europe (try instead amazon.CO.UK)
3nd tip Buy only SATA III 6Gb/s and 550Mb/s or more (the rest are with old chips and cells = low performance = low value for money).
Please note you have to pay a little attention when investigating those models
For example: the 120GB Sandisk Extreme sometimes you can find it as: SDSSDX-120G-G25 but in the above list appears as SDSSDX 120G G25 (without spacing, is just inverted a bit). So, even it is SATA III with 550Mb/s still not in the top 50… is ranked 120th (mine is 35th and cheaper)