Right now, I've got an 80GB 7200 RPM SATA II drive as my primary drive. I'd like to increase general performance some, especially in games. I'm looking at either an 80GB X25 for ~$150 or two 80 GB ...
The purpose is for running VMs in VMware Workstation. The question: Are SSDs significantly more reliable, thus making RAID0 less of an issue than it was with spinning disks? This is keeping in mind ...
Using CrystalDiskMark to measure the sequential read performance, a single Pyro delivered an anemic throughput of 210MB/s, making it the slowest SSD tested. Adding a second drive did boost performance ...
AS SSD Benchmark's sequential read and write results reaffirm what we saw in CrystalDiskMark. While the RAID0 configuration offered a healthy gain, the Pyro drives were still a fair way off from the ...