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Penalty! Specious data! 1 point.

Flash memory is slower to write, but a quick survey of 2GB USB thumb drive benchmarks shows their write speed to be about 65% of their read speed, not 4% as reported in this user's results.

There is still more than one order of magnitude of performance missing.



Linus just blogged about how in acutal use ssds are usually vastly slower than advertised he was pleasantly surprised to find one that wasnt in this post http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2008/10/so-i-got-one-of-...




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