SSD vs. SATA RAID: A performance benchmark

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jul 30, 2008 4:24 PM EDT
Linux.com; By Ben Martin
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Solid state drives (SSD) have many advantages over traditional spinning-platter hard drives including no noise, low power and heat generation, good resistance to shock, and most importantly, extremely low seek times. To see just how much an SSD might improve performance, I used Bonnie++ to benchmark a contemporary SSD as it might be used in a laptop computer. Without going into details, SSDs may use single-level cell (SLC) or multi-level cell storage, with SLC drives typically offering better performance.

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