How I figured out my OCZ Core 64GB SSD

a 275USD 64GB SATA2 Solid State Drive with Reads up to 120-143MB/sec and Writes up to 80-93MB/sec with a seek time less than .35ms? That’s what OCZ claims, and that is what got me interested, but I soon realized it wasn’t so straightforward.

Read into it:

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Fast Large File Transfers on Windows Shares? Jumbo Frames?

Sometimes you may want to move large amounts of data over a network. The natural and probably naive assumption is that if you have a Gigabit Ethernet network, the transfer will occur at 1Gb/sec.

Many things can prevent this from happening:

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