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I'm looking for an SSD disk for my operating system drive on my desktop machine. There seems to be a huge range of sizes and prices. I understand that the internal mapping between flash blocks and logical blocks makes a huge difference in responsiveness of the OS. This is particularly important for random small writes.

With this in mind, what is the fastest performing disk?

Realistically I'm looking at sub $1500/£1000/€1000, but I'd be willing to go higher if it turns out there is a huge difference.

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I would consider putting the swap file/partition on a regular disk drive, because SSD's usually aren't that fast during writing. – Brad Gilbert Jul 16 '09 at 3:00
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The article Understanding SSDs and New Drives from OCZ still is one of the best references to understanding. The Intel X-25 is still one of the best all around performers.

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It looks like the Intel X-25 drives are the speediest, but they're pricey.

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