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THE FINAL RECKONING

. A zillion benchmarks. And a whole hill of specs. But what have we learned? Firstly, the quality of current SSDs is very high. There absolutely isn’t a dud here. Every single drive would be an electrifying upgrade for a system based on something like an old SATA SSD. Indeed, it’s remarkable to think 7GB-plus per second of bandwidth is rapidly

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