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How much faster is solid state disk than a hard drive?

Performance Chart

 

Hard Disk Drive

RAM Solid State Disk

Flash Solid State Disk

Latency for Reads/Writes

4-5 ms

.015 ms

.250 ms read/
.08 ms write

Random I/Os per second

150-300

600,000

1,000,000

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