SSD vs HDD
VMware testing on Ubuntu 11.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite.
HTML result view exported from: https://openbenchmarking.org/result/1202176-AR-SSDVSHDD438&sor&grs.
Apache Benchmark
Static Web Page Serving
Gzip Compression
2GB File Compression
Unpacking The Linux Kernel
linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2
PostgreSQL pgbench
TPC-B Transactions Per Second
SQLite
Test Target: Default Test Directory
PostMark
Disk Transaction Performance
Phoronix Test Suite v10.8.5