So today let's look at how far had drives have come.   Let's start with some traditional spinny hard drives with sequential reads: 2006: This is a ThinkPad T60.  100 MB/s.   This is my Dell Dimension from 2005.  125 MB/s. Let's fast forward to early SSDs: 2012! Here is 3 Intel X25-Ms in Raid 0 configuration to get max speed. 724MB/ s which was at the upper edge of speed for the time.   More typical was my OCZ SSD from ...

I know I've done benchmarks on my various machines in the past but I had no idea how far the rabbit hole goes... Let's start with back in 2003: Benchmarking Dell XPS and Lenovo Thinkpads (littletinyfrogs.com) Device Description Score Frog 2003 Decent Dell Dimension for its time. 132 Turtle 2006 My ThinkPad T60 for business trips in 2006. 150 Turtle 2007 ThinkPad T61 replacing T60, good 2007 laptop. 286 Frog 2007 Dell XPS 710 work desktop, quad core, RA...