OCZ Core SSD vs WD VelociRaptor: the early performance numbers are in

Now that all the SSD efficiency drama has mellowed out a bit, the guys over at Hot Hardware got their hands on an OCZ Core Series SATA II 64GB SSD and already pitted it against a WD VelociRaptor. The early numbers are impressive: The OCZ averaged read speeds of over 140MB/s and was writing at 87MB/s while the WD topped out at around 136MB/s read and 134MB/s write times. When it comes to applications and random-access times, though, the OCZ SSD scored some crazy fast times. In Windows Defender, gaming, photo import, and Vista startup tests, the SSD was getting things done at as much as 5 times the speed of the VelociRaptor. Sure, the tests are incomplete, but the future is undoubtedly bright for solid state storage once prices roll into realistic range.

[nikster Posted Jul 22nd 2008 1:00AM]

This is a laptop grade drive going head to head with one of the fastest desktop drives out there, and it's pretty much a toss-up. That's a HUGE gain for laptop drives, it's almost unbelievable.

I soooo want one, but I will be patient and wait until they are built into a new Mac laptop. I can't help but think a little OS support for these in the SATA drivers will make them even faster, plus that "delay" thing yuri mentioned needs to be cleared up.

Obviously SATA wasn't made for this technology. For example, the SATA drivers were never tested with near-zero access times - I can imagine there are pretty big improvements to be had if they were optimized for that.

[dsstrainer Posted Jul 22nd 2008 7:00AM]

Ah ok. Didn't realize it was laptop hardware. That is good then. :) Thanks for clearing that up.

[8steve8 Posted Jul 26th 2008 1:41PM]

http://www.alternativerecursion.info/?p=106

interesting OCZ Core SSD REVIEW