[mdlug] Opinions - Should this be the core of my next desktop

[Robert Adkins II]

I understand that "independent tests" have shown that 6Gbps is just the max
that is inititally received on SATA with a standard SSD, but will often drop
down to 4 or even 3Gbps for sustained throughput. Allegedly, this device can
maintain a higher level of throughput, that blows away the best of SSDs. (On
their Workstation versions, the throughput DOUBLEs at 1500Mbps for reads and
1220Mbps for writes, that's something that SATA can't hope to match anytime
soon, these are almost to a little over twice the price of the Enthusiast
hardware.)

Yes, SSD manufacturers have engineered to tolerate the constant
reading/writing of a Windows swap file, by having the drive include a
control command that spreads the reads/writes across the entire device,
which is why a delete on a current SSD is even less of a delete than on a
standard platter HD.

Still, every time you use a PC with a standard SSD or even leave it up and
running, any application that reads/writes periodically to the drive is
inching the drive ever closer to its "Death" where you can only read and no
longer write to the drive.