Flash Drive vs Hard Drive

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All told, a SSD > hard drives for WoW.

Maybe I'm missing something here. SSD disks, as they stand today, are indeed faster than run-of-the-mill SATA 7200RPM HDDs by some 5-10% on average. They're actually SLOWER than a WD Raptor 10k SATA/150 drive on all fronts and you can get a Raptor 160GB drive for what a 16GB SSD will cost you or less. But with WoW and enough RAM, you never hit the disk anyway once you're done watching the loading bar, so what's the point in spending all that money? And if you're lagging/chugging when loading textures now, SSDs are NOT what you need to go upgrade to make it go away.

[edit] I take that back. There are SSDs that outperform a single non-RAID WD Raptor. But they cost $2000 for 64GB. :huh: Color me completely unimpressed, as you can setup a RAID0+1 system with redundancy AND better performance for half the price. /shrug

They perform better in random READ tests. They do not perform faster in sequential read or any kind of write tests. Great for small static databases, poor for encoding video.