Storage formats is a single affair in most situations, the humble hard-drive have survived the storage changes from the floppy, zip files and the DVD formats have been replaced and revised. But in the dawn of the introduction of mass storage of the solid being the next competition of storage formats that can reach up to 64 GB or more. Hard-drive still has the advantages, like a much cheaper production and price per gigabyte, and reliable to keep data in a magnetic impulse.
Overall, the SSD are going to be the speed and latency powerhouse, but sacrificing their availability and cheapness in the market. Patriot, Corsair and Kingston, major memory vendors put forward their product line of solid state drives. Patriot gave their Torqx 128GB SSD drive as their mainstream storage product in just a good overall prize of $620. This may be too much for users and a little low for storage space, but it is worth it for the performance and latencies they provide when loading games and apps.
Physically the Patriot Torqx 128GB is a 2.5in laptop sized drive, so the space given in this format is a sort of a good side in most cases, with mini-cases or laptops who want speed and quicker 01.ns latency. But in the case of Patriot, there is an included 3.5in caddy for those desktop form factors. With the inclusion of the caddy is handy, but the handy part of the drive is the blistering speed in burst read and write, going over the 230MB/s speed limit in the higher end Hard-drive, but also hitting much faster loading times that SSDs are more profound in.
Even for most SSD’s with the problem of having a limited read and write cycle, and a slight problem when writing in small chunks can be degrading the SSD in prolonged times and similar processes. But most of the time we normally, change configuration pretty quickly when a much better SSD drives or revision come up to fix these minor problems, and with alternative like RAID configurations with a HDD have a mix of speed and size compensates the problem in some form.
The performance from the SSD is far-fetched really. Armed with the latest controller firmware we really see some true magic happen. Read speeds of up to ~230 are certainly not uncommon, and write performance (although you can measure that in many ways) was just as stunning closing in at 190~200MB/sec.
The onboard 64MB cache controlled by that multi-channel Indilinx controller will make sure the entire process will go smooth, we mentioned it many times now, but the initial small files write ‘issue’ has been obliterated completely thanks to the implementation of large caches. The next step in the evolution of SSD drives probably will be even bigger file caches