"I knew coming into this review that the solid state drives were
going to differ greatly from standard hard drives in terms of performance
but I didn't know exactly how much and in which ways. The very obvious
strong spot for the OCZ 64GB SSD is the pure speed it demonstrated in random
access times; with a time of 0.2 ms compared to the 6.9 ms of our fastest
platter-based hard drive the OCZ SSD is 345x faster in get that single bit
of data. This can obviously incredible beneficial to applications that
utilize a HUGE amount of random reads as long as those reads are for very
small bits of data."