This test by The SSD Review shows their 800GB sample delivers about 1.9GB/s read and 1.5GB/s write and 228,000 IOPS. Nice!
Costs $1,929 for 400GB and $3,859 for 800GB. Ouch!
You get what you pay for.
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Quick SSD v HDD comparison
Capacity & price:
The OCZ Revodrive 3 x2 240GB SSD is less than 25% of the capacity of the Western Digital VelociRaptor 1TB HDD but costs about twice as much. So the SSD storage is roughly 8 times as expensive.
Read speed:
SSD 1520MB/s, HDD 200MB/s – SSD is roughly 7.6 times as fast.
Write speed:
SSD 1129MB/s, HDD 200MB/s – SSD is roughly 5.6 times as fast.