Solid-state drives have become remarkably affordable over the past few years. When we posted our first SSD architecture discussion piece, back in 2014, SSDs of 240-256GB capacities were easily between £100 and £150, depending on drive. Large capacity SSDs (480GB+) were not really affordable for most users. Huge change, considering they were easily 3x that price just a few years ago.
Plextor M7V 128GB
128GB
98K IOPS 4K Read
2.5″
TLC
84K IOPS 4K Write
SATA
560/530MB/s Sequential R/W
HyperX Savage 240GB
240GB
93K IOPS 4K Read
2.5″
MLC
89K IOPS 4K Write
SATA
560/530MB/s Sequential R/W
Crucial MX300 525GB
525GB
92K IOPS 4K Read
2.5″
TLC
83K IOPS 4K Write
SATA
530/510MB/s Sequential R/W
Samsung 850 EVO 500GB
500GB
98K IOPS 4K Read
2.5″
3D VNAND
90K IOPS 4K Write
SATA
540/520MB/s Sequential R/W
Intel SSD 600p 512GB
512GB
128K IOPS 4K Read
M.2 2280
3D VNAND
128K IOPS 4K Write
NVMe
1775/550MB/s Sequential R/W
Plextor M8Pe 512GB
512GB
120K IOPS 4K Read
PCI-e Card
MLC
130K IOPS 4K Write
NVMe
1600/500MB/s Sequential R/W
Samsung 850 EVO 2TB
2TB
98K IOPS 4K Read
2.5″
SATA
90K IOPS 4K Write
540/520MB/s Sequential R/W
