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Old Jun 8, 2013 | 11:27 pm
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Originally Posted by nkedel
My personal use is very heavily incompressible data, and while Sandforce drives are nowhere near as blindingly fast as newer SSDs with incompressible data, the X201 isn't going to see 6gbps performance to begin with, and the present generation of Sandforce controllers with better flash can easily keep up with channel speed with incompressible data on a 3gbps channel.
One thing I've never been clear about is whether you get more than the rated capacity if your data is highly compressible. I'm guessing not since the partition creation will preclude that.
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