Originally Posted By: andy
They only seem to be rated at: Read: 104MB/s Write: 93MB/s so a more up to date normal hard disc might be just as fast in your PC.

The reason that SSDs outperform winchesters for general-purpose computing is not their read or write rate, it's that their seek time is zero. An SSD that did 10MB/s would outperform a winchester at 100MB/s for all but the most stream-y workloads.

Peter