Now here’s something interesting for those of you into solid state drives. The folks at SlashGear ran some performance benchmarks on Samsung’s 64GB SSD unit and compared the results against a SanDisk 32GB SSD unit. Benchmarks used included HD-Tach and HD-Tune running on an Alienware m9750 laptop system running Windows Vista. The verdict?

Is it worth choosing SSD over a traditional platter-based drive in your next laptop, then?  Looking solely at performance, the answer has to be yes; however price is still a significant factor and the number of machines that even offer solid-state storage remains limited.

You can read more about the benchmarks here.

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