In the end, the enthusiast managed to improve SSD performance – in particular, the disk controller began to work at a frequency of 500 megahertz. The increase amounted to 17.6 percent, according to the blogger, the SSD performance increased noticeably. However, the power consumption has also increased – almost doubled.
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“As appealing as it may be to get maximum performance from your hardware, for most, overclocking an SSD isn’t worth the effort,” the TechSpot authors noted. Once overclocked, they said, the drive can crash and lose all data.
In December, TrendForce analysts predicted that SSDs would become more expensive on the market. The authors of the report noted that the price increase is caused by the interests of SSD manufacturers to return to profitability.
