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SYSMark 2007

Most high end SSDs are fast enough to perform single tasks like launching an application or loading a file just as quick as one another. It doesn't take a drive capable of 30,000 IOPS to do these things, and thus you end up with performance that's roughly flat between drives. Where drives differ from one another is how they behave over the long term and how they handle bursts of combined activity. The benchmarks on the next page tackle the latter, and I've run a lot of data to characterize the former, but SYSMark is proof of exactly what I'm talking about.

The drives here all perform very similarly to one another. SYSMark tends to focus on the more CPU bound tasks where you don't see much of a difference between SSDs. Also note that there's very little difference between a SSD and a fast hard drive here. Start throwing a lot of concurrent IOs at the hard drives and they quickly crumble as you'll see on the next page.