Kingston SSDNow V Series 64GB Review, Bonnie++ Benchmark
We love SSDs, particularly the Intel X25-M 80GB which I've blogged about before. But that's expensive (£134 wholesale) and now Kingston's released the SSDNow with pretty solid write speed of 80 MB/s and a nice 64GB capacity. eBuyer, Overclock.co.uk are selling these for about £92 ex VAT and wholesale is only 12% less.
Boot Time: From Grub to Usable Desktop it boots in 24.0 seconds.
Bonnie++ Benchmarks (all in MB/s):
Sequential Character Output: 11.609
Block Output: 21.171
Rewrite: 10.513
Sequential Character Input: 12.184
Block Input: 130.831
Random Seeks Per Second: 5119
Basically the Samsung F3 hard drive crushes it and offers 8 times the space at one third the price, i.e. the Kingston SSD comes out 24 times more expensive per GB. However, at Random seeks (access time) it's 29.5 times faster which is kind of crazy. The Samsung 3.5" hard drive, by contrast was just 1.3 times faster than the 2.5" Fujitsu Drive.