{"id":3486,"date":"2019-09-27T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/langa.com\/?p=3486"},"modified":"2019-09-26T16:10:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T20:10:06","slug":"what-is-the-average-read-write-speed-of-an-ssd-hard-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/langa.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/27\/what-is-the-average-read-write-speed-of-an-ssd-hard-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"“What is the average read write speed of an SSD hard drive?”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(Answer requested by Jane Clark)<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The range is so wide there’s no useful “average” to quote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, the https:\/\/ssd.userbenchmark.com\/<\/a> site lists current real-world SSD write times from 26MB\/sec to 3366MB\/sec — more than a two orders of magnitude<\/strong> difference!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But by checking out that site, and others such as PassMark.com SSD ratings<\/a>, you can easily see what type of SSD performance is available at any given capacity, bus, price point, and brand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sites like <\/strong><\/em>this<\/strong><\/em><\/a> and others let you easily identify good — and not so good — SSDs <\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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(Answer requested by Jane Clark) The range is so wide there’s no useful “average” to quote. For example, the https:\/\/ssd.userbenchmark.com\/ site lists current real-world SSD write times from 26MB\/sec to 3366MB\/sec — more than a two orders of magnitude difference! But by checking out that site, and others such as PassMark.com SSD ratings, you can…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-reader-asks","category-hardware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaiox-Ue","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1257,"url":"https:\/\/langa.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/06\/a-reader-asks-is-it-ok-to-use-ntfs-on-a-ssd-why-or-why-not\/","url_meta":{"origin":3486,"position":0},"title":"A reader asks: Is it OK to use NTFS on a SSD? 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