Solid-state drive performance
It’s the most widespread drive type in modern personal computers.
We applied our testing technique to the Intel 530 Series SSD. Looking at the performance charts, there’s only a subtle difference in how Ext4, Btrfs and XFS perform. You could pick any of those and get the same performance; they’re all very good. If you need a reason to choose one filesystem over another, read and write speeds won’t suffice, so consider extra features (see overleaf). Reiser5 showed a lacklustre performance during the read test, though it was still decent – at least, it was better than the old Reiser4 figures. Nonetheless, Reiser5 ran close to the winners, just 10 per cent slower in the dataset test, and about 30 per cent slower in Postmark.