Which is better, Solid State drives or Hard drives? The guys over at Bare Feats decided to do a comparison using the “late 2008” MacBook Pro with a 2.8GHz lab “rat” with the 7200rpm 320GB, which is of course a Hitachi Travelstar 7K320 against a OCZ Core Series 128GB Solid State Drive.

And they found that the 128GB OCZ Core Series SSD is faster than the 320GB Hitachi 7K320 HDD when it comes to sustained large and small READS. When it came to large sustained WRTIES the SSD came out slightly faster, but there were mixed results with small random WRITES.

Therefore, they conclude that the SSD id better for speedier booting, waking and launching, but however does not give any improvement over a fast HDD when saving small random data or capturing large data blocks.

Full analysis here

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