SSD Vs HDD

(Solid State Drive Versus Hard Disk Drive)

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By Matthew Nicholls Pilbeam

A Graph to show how quickly different drives, laptops and operating systems perform different tasks.

3000

Time taken to perform tasks (sec)

2500 2000 1500 1000 500 0

Storage size Read and (GB) write 3.06GB of files and folders Read and write large files (3.06GB) Symantec Norton AntiVirus scan1 Windows WorldBench Adobe Microsoft file search1 6 Beta Photoshop Office 2003 score CS2 2 2 Microsoft Nero 7 Ultra WinZip Windows Edition 2 Computing Media WinZip 10.0 Encoder 9.0 2 2

Tasks

Average Average

362.9 369.1 236.3 590 227.1 547

Overall SSD Average

275.4333

Average

Average

Overall HDD Average

502.0333

Average

Average

A Graph to show how quickly different drives, laptops and operating systems perform reading and writing tasks.
700 Dell ATG-D620 SSD SanDisk SSD UATA 5000 XP Professional 600

Time taken to complete tasks (sec)

500

Dell ATG-D620 HDD Toshiba MK8009GAH XP Professional

400

Fujitsu LifeBook P1610 SSD Samsung Flash SSD MCAQE32G8APP XP Professional

300

Fujitsu LifeBook P1610 HDD Toshiba MK3006GAL XP Professional

200

Fujitsu LifeBook P1610 SSD Samsung Flash SSD MCAQE32G8APP Vista Business

100 Fujitsu LifeBook P1610 HDD Toshiba MK3006GAL Vista Business 0 Read and write 3.06GB of files and folders Tasks Read and write large files (3.06GB)

Overall SSD Average

104.7

Overall HDD Average

160.3

Overall SSD Average

112.9333

Overall HDD Average

238.7333

A Graph to show how quickly different drives, laptops and operating systems perform tasks
350 Dell ATG-D620 SSD SanDisk SSD UATA 5000 XP Professional 300 Dell ATG-D620 HDD Toshiba MK8009GAH XP Professional

Time taken to perform tasks (sec)

250

200

Fujitsu LifeBook P1610 SSD Samsung Flash SSD MCAQE32G8APP XP Professional

150

Fujitsu LifeBook P1610 HDD Toshiba MK3006GAL XP Professional

100

Fujitsu LifeBook P1610 SSD Samsung Flash SSD MCAQE32G8APP Vista Business

50 Fujitsu LifeBook P1610 HDD Toshiba MK3006GAL Vista Business 0 Symantec Norton AntiVirus scan1 Tasks Windows file search1

Average Average

554.4 584.2 906.6 1553.2 747.6 1046

Overall SDD Average

736.2

Average

Average

Average

Overall HDD Average

1061.13

Average

A Graph to show how quickly different drives, laptops and operating systems perform wordbench 6 beta tests.
3000 Dell ATG-D620 SSD SanDisk SSD UATA 5000 XP Professional 2500

Time taken to perform tests (sec)

Dell ATG-D620 HDD Toshiba MK8009GAH XP Professional 2000 Fujitsu LifeBook P1610 SSD Samsung Flash SSD MCAQE32G8APP XP Professional 1500 Fujitsu LifeBook P1610 HDD Toshiba MK3006GAL XP Professional 1000 Fujitsu LifeBook P1610 SSD Samsung Flash SSD MCAQE32G8APP Vista Business 500 Fujitsu LifeBook P1610 HDD Toshiba MK3006GAL Vista Business 0 Adobe Photoshop Microsoft Office CS2 2 2003 2 Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0 2 Tests Nero 7 Ultra Edition 2 WinZip Computing WinZip 10.0 2

Average Average Average

408.92 454.48

585.72
1044.89 488.52 736.89

Average

Average

Average

A graph to show the average performance over all the tasks

1200 Dell ATG-D620 SSD SanDisk SSD UATA 5000 XP Professional 1000

Average time taken to perfom tasks (sec)

Dell ATG-D620 HDD Toshiba MK8009GAH XP Professional 800 Fujitsu LifeBook P1610 SSD Samsung Flash SSD MCAQE32G8APP XP Professional 600 Fujitsu LifeBook P1610 HDD Toshiba MK3006GAL XP Professional 400 Fujitsu LifeBook P1610 SSD Samsung Flash SSD MCAQE32G8APP Vista Business 200 Fujitsu LifeBook P1610 HDD Toshiba MK3006GAL Vista Business 0 Average Performance

A graph to show the total average time taken to perform tasks by each type of drive
800

700

Average time taken to perform tasks (sec)

600

500

400

Hard Disk Drives (HDD's) Solid State Drives (SDD's)

300

200

100

0 Total Drive Average

SSDs
Use half the power:

and Take only 2/3 the time:

Of HDDs

But has speed already been taken into account..?

Bibliography:

Perenson M. J. (2007). Solid-State Drives Versus Hard-Disk Drives in Laptops. October 22nd 2007. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134185page,2-c,thinandlightnotebooks/article.html And http://www.pcworld.com/zoom?id=134185&page=2&type=table&zoomI dx=1