As we head to the end of 2009 - the truly decent 2.5" SATA SSD's worth buying and give the best bang for the buck can be simplified down to a handful. The broad adoption of Indilinx and Samsung controller chips - combined with ample on-board cache has taken performance to new levels - and leveled out the playing field.

The best value lies in these few drives: An OCZ Agility, A Super Talent UltraDrive ME, The Patriot Torqx or Warp V3 Series, and an OCZ Vertex & Summit -- or perhaps a RAID 0 Apex. The rest of the chart below - from BenchMarkReviews.com - was cropped out - It just wasn't worth bothering with - altho Corsair's latest Samsung/Indilinx models probably should have had a spot on the list, as the still highly respectable Intel SSD G1 and G2 drives.

In the OCZ Vertex drive variants and Firmware Revs shown below - the performance differences may matter only to the incremental Tweaky-Geeks who live by a stop-watch or have bleeding-edge wallets. The designs, controller chips, clock-speed of the flash memory chips used - are all leveling out to a basic commodity used in most of the drives these days. Any of the handful of SSD's above will deliver GREAT performance far, far exceeding your original SATA hard drive.

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Technological advances to the Solid-State SSD disk storage market are a good thing. The vengeance with which these drives are being analyzed to within a nano-second of thier lives is not. The average, normal person is simply looking for a way to pep-up their aging laptop computer with a much faster replacement SSD drive. Or businesses are simply investing in ways to make their Servers handle transactions more smoothly with a Solid-State drive.


But leave it to the TWEAK-GEEKS to overanalyze this exploding SSD market to death. These guys - and they ARE guys - you'd think they were re-living their teenage dream-car, hot-rod rods by jamming the disk-bashing benchmark rulers are far into their pubic bones as possible to get to the TRUTH about what solid-state drives are packin'.

Let's keep it simple: SSD's start your computer faster than you knew possible, your applications open in a literal 'flash' of high-speed memory cells, and most will realize what a sluggish bottle-neck their old, spinning-platter hard drive really was. We'll be glad we upgraded to an SSD and then the rest of us simply get back to running our biz and personal lives, managing our correspondence and entertainment with satisfying responsiveness.

Here at www.ssd-solid-state-drives.com the point is to simply point out that SSD storage is here, it's performance is already great and getting better, it's easy to find an exceptional deal on one - and is a worthwhile, AFFORDABLE upgrade to an aging computer. Hard drives die from mechanical failure at an alarming rate - and if your's starts to croak or gives you the dreaded CLICKS OF DEATH - consider an SSD. The solid-state drive market has really come together in 2009 and has a long, long future ahead of it.

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