[utexaspunk]

No read performance? Other than being solid state, that's the real advantage of SSDs, especially non-sequential ones. I typically use an SSD for the OS and applications, and then use a regular hard drive for the actual content that I work with which needs better write performance. It may take (very) slightly longer to install the applications to the SSD, but they start up faster.

[jeffbee]

It seems to me extremely unlikely that an HDD has anywhere near the sustained write performance of a proper SSD. E.g. a Samsung 980 Pro 2TB will write at ~2GB/s indefinitely (well, until you wear it out, which at that rate will only take about 2 days). That's the aggregate speed of a whole box full of HDDs.

[louwrentius]

Sorry, the point of my article is that cheap SSDs have terrible write performance. Read performance may be fine, but write performance does matter and people often don't know how bad it can be.

And then they wonder why copying some files is so slow.