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| Editor's intro:- | You'll often see
news stories that say
such and such a manufacturer has launched the "fastest SSD". But how
can they all be true? Sad to relate - but often they are not. Other storage publications - which only have a superficial grasp of this market - publish many claims which are completely wrong because they aren't aware of the hundreds of other SSD products already available in the market. Another problem is that many magazine and vendor published SSD benchmarks are unreliable due to halo effects. If SSD speed is your thing - you've come to the right place. We've published SSD listings in our directories for over a decade, and there has been a dedicated online SSD Directory here on STORAGEsearch.com since 1998. And way back in prehistory I was designing systems which worked with neanderthal SSDs nearly 3 decades ago. |
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| Speed isn't everything* and it
comes at a price. But if you need the speediest SSD then wading through the web
sites of over 130 current SSD oems to find a suitable candidate slows you down.
And the SSD search problem will get worse. I've done the research for you to
save you time. And this page is updated daily from
storage news and direct
inputs from oems. * Speed isn't everything - but it is important. According to the world's first SSD Buyer Preference Survey - in answer to the question "Why Do People Use Solid State Disks?" - the #1 reason given was - "Application speedup" - cited by 76% SSD buyers. That emphasis on speed is still true today - because this "Fastest SSDs" article was one of the top 5 most popular articles read by readers in the previous month (out of many thousands). |
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| Footnote:- the Higher Cost
of Higher Performance Although the starting point for SSD performance is that old flash versus RAM debate the performance of the fastest products (like those listed here) is a business as well as a technical decision. Make the product too expensive and not enough customers will buy it. The 1U rackmount form factor is a curious example where a few years ago you could actually buy a much faster product than is available today. But I'm guessing the capacity of those older systems didn't best suit enough customers at that performance level and that price - because that product is no longer available. Customers need a feature set (speed, capacity, interface and price) that suits their application. Getting the speed right is just a small part of the mix (although in the context of this article - it's the most important Manufacturers can leverage the intrinsic memory performance in 2 main areas
The race to market the fastest SSDs is getting more competitive.
The market will decide. Stay tuned to the SSD page to see what happens next. Other related articles:- ...Later:- this article - the Fastest Solid State Disks - has become one of the top 5 articles viewed by readers. Although most users don't buy or need the absolutely "fastest" products - the table above gives them an idea of the performance limits available in the form factors which suit their applications. Users understand very well that if they're buying an SSD that's slower than the models listed above - they can reasonably expect it to be cheaper too. There's usually a spread of performance in each form factor - and the figures listed above - should help them recognize when the product they're being offered is an older design and a long way behind the state of the art. You'd be surprised how many times I get contacted by irate SSD product marketers who say something like "I've got a rackmount SSD which is faster than the 2.5" models listed - so why isn't my product listed too." In 99% of such cases the rackmount SSD which they are suggesting I add to this list is 2x to 10x slower than some other product which is already listed in that physical size - so the answer is obvious. "If the customer has got a 2.5 inch size slot - then they can't fit your rackmount product in." I get dialog about this list every week - and the discussion with vendors of the nominated products often goes very deep - resulting in some cases in a request by me to remeasure the performance if I don't believe the specifications. In some of the highest volume form factors I've started to list 2-3 "fastest" products. That's intended to be helpful in situations where that particular market splits by major interface or some other technical / application factor. |
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