Ssd Laptop Drives Slower Than Hard Disks
Apple’s top-end MacBook Air features a 128GB SSD and costs 40 per cent more than a similar model that has a 120GB hard drive. Sony (Sony VAIO TT) and Toshiba (Toshiba Dynabook SS RX1) also sell premium laptops boasting more-efficient SSDs. Yet, while SSDs are fast at writing large files and at reading either large or small files they tend to be far slower than mechanical hard drives at storing small slices of data, called “random writes”....