Digital Home Thoughts: Tom's Hardware Checks Out Two More SSDs

"The market is flooded with flash-based solid state drives (SSD) right now, all of which claim to deliver impressive throughput at power consumption levels low enough to save the world. So much for the theory, though—the reality is rather different. A few select products are truly impressive, but the bulk of these are just expensive offerings that do not deliver on their promises. Two new drives by Samsung and Solidata found their way into our test labs, and they are as different as they can be."

SSD Manufacturers are working hard to improve the performance of their product and bring them more into the mainstream. Of course, it almost seems as if everyone and their mom is making SSDs now. Solidata and Samsung have their latest babies wrung through the testing labs of Tom's Hardware and the results demonstrate that time does not always see improvements in technology. Of course, I welcome the extra competition, but the results that Tom's Hardware produces still leaves me a bit wanting and thinking that I may still stick with good old HDDs for the next year, maybe two. Sure, HDDs are a fairly mature product, but they've stood with me through the test of time. At least I'm not waxing poetic about 3.5" floppies, the Parallel Port or trying to convince people that VESA Local Bus really is better than ISA.