We have repeatedly talked about the advantages of SSD drives in reviews of such devices. Let us recall that due to the use of microcircuits instead of magnetic plates, such drives are silent in operation, are often more economical, and are resistant to falls/vibrations both in non-operating and in working states.

 

In our last review of SSD drives, which was about a year ago (electronic version hi-Tech PRO 7-8/2009, p. 30), we pointed out that in terms of memory capacity and cost, such devices are much inferior to conventional hard drives. More than a year has passed, but, unfortunately, the situation has hardly changed. SSD hard drives are still quite expensive. However, in addition to the above advantages, SSDs have one more, very important trump card. Such drives, as a rule, turn out to be faster than conventional hard drives, and the difference can be quite significant.

 

The GOODDRIVE SSD256M25S2GR SSD in question does not stand out much among similar devices in appearance. Like its brothers, it has dimensions comparable to those of 2.5″ laptop hard drives and is connected via the SATA interface.

 

 

We compared the operating speed of the GOODDRIVE SSD256M25S2GR and a 3.5” SATA hard drive, which was played by a fairly fast Seagate Barracuda 7200.12. We must say that the SSD256M25S2GR showed pretty good results. Its linear writing and reading speed turned out to be unattainable for hard drives, and in the PCMark Vantage HDD Suite test, which simulates the operation of the drive when loading the Windows operating system, loading various applications, importing images, playing games and other tasks, the SSD drive scored four times more points than SATA hard drive.

 

Overall, we did not notice any drawbacks with the GOODDRIVE SSD256M25S2GR drive, other than the very high cost. Although this is understandable and is explained by the large (256 GB for an SSD drive is a lot) memory capacity.

 

In our opinion, buying an SSD of such a capacity today is not very optimal, but for those who still want to get a high-speed drive, we can recommend taking a closer look at models with a smaller capacity (for example, 64 GB) and using them as system ones, and Use regular hard drives to store information.

GOODDRIVE SSD256M25S2GR SSD

Disk capacity: 256 GB

Read speed: up to 230 MB/s

Write speed: up to 180 MB/s

Chip type: MLC

Interface: SATA I, SATA II

Size: 2.5″

Supplier: MTI, (044) 581-5121

Price: $700