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Feedback: How fast ARE SSDs?
Sean B (Texas):
"You gave the Toshiba Tecra W50 a 'don't buy' in episode 136 of Before you Buy because it uses a HDD instead of a SDD. In the comments you suggested that Toshiba sacrificed 55% of the laptops performance for a 3% decrease in price. That doesn't sound right."
Even without a SSD, the W50 has a super-fast CPU, GPU and lots of memory.
Can not having a SSD really cripple a modern laptop by 50%?"
Here was the calculus I used:
Price as-tested of Toshiba Tecra W50-A1501: $2250 Difference in price between a HDD and 256GGB SSD: $60 PCMark Vantage performance of this laptop with HDD: 9000 PCMark Vantage performance of this laptop WITH a SSD: ~20k That's how I got a 55% performance hit for a 3% cost saving.
So it wasn't a 3% price savings for a 55% performance penalty...
It was a 3% price savings for a 59% performance penalty...
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