And levels of writing performance on the 1988 test showed virtually no improvement over the low levels recorded in 1984.

You can't write visual performance.

Despite the middling write performance of this drive, it is still amazing how much goodness was packed into such a small form factor.

To make drive benchmark test and analyze the sequential read and write performance for 1024 byte blocks :

The result is the SSD will have more free space enabling lower write amplification and higher performance.

Granted, these other drives do not have amazing random write performance either, but at least it does not involve messing around with some ugly hack.

They are different in their write performance, and in how much calculations are needed.

The write performance depends on the slower of the two writes (i.e. the one that involves larger seek time and rotational latency).

Oddly, the stock drive seemed to take a nose dive in random write performance with 1024K data chunks.

Disadvantages include slower write performance than a single disk and bottlenecking when multiple drives are written concurrently.