SSD 120GB solid state drive .

1-2 minutes easy read Quick Buying Guide for SSD (Solid State Drive) and HDD (Hard Drive). The market is flooded with cheap and slow versions but luckily now there is enough information available to clear the performance doubts. SO, what SSD or HDD should I buy? 1st tip SSD is the latest and fastest technology for data storage (and more) 2nd tip LOOK WHAT EXPERTS ARE SAYING http://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/hdd_list.php is the biggest benchmark result list with more than 3000 models 1st column is the “MODEL”, 2nd “DISK RATING” (how many points it has, more is better) 3rd the most important is “Rank” (considering about everything that is or was on the market) Ranks from 1 to 50 are as good as an Olympic medal 4th is “VALUE (for money)” very useful but unfortunately incomplete because the 5th “PRICE” is either incomplete either with prices from EGG.com or amazon.com both American-versions that don’t deliver to Europe (try instead amazon.CO.UK) 3nd tip Buy only SATA III 6Gb/s and 550Mb/s or more (the rest are with old chips and cells = low performance = low value for money). Please note you have to pay a little attention when investigating those models Example: the “120GB Sandisk Extreme” sometimes you can find it as: “SDSSDX-120G-G25” but in the above list appears as “SDSSDX 120G G25” (without spacing, is just inverted a bit). So, even it is SATA III with 550Mb/s still not in the top 50… is ranked 120th So I have for sale 120gb 120gb PNY Prevail Elite performance OEM Connectors : SATA III / 6G (commpatible with old connectors too) Max Read : up to 550 MB/s Max Write : up to 520 MB/s Random Read/Write 4KB (Aligned): up to 85,000 IOPS TRIM support (requires OS support) Model