On Thursday 09 May 2019 10:28:10 am Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > On Thu, 9 May 2019, at 15:17, Gene Heskett wrote: > > ... and its one of the reasons > > an SSD seems so much faster because they seek in a microsecond > > In what sense does an SSD have "seek time"? Seek time is > a tightly defined thing. > > There must be delays in SSD firmware's processing, I suppose, but > it isn't seek time. > > Also, I wonder how you can say that that delay is a microsecond long? > IDK for sure, but its just a rewrite of it data pointer, si I use microsecond to connote the instant factor.
> Which manuafacturer, which product, what level of firmware? I have a mixture of kinston and adata SSD's here, all in the basic 40 to 60 Gb sizes, and working lots faster than spinning rust. For most of what I do with those machines, a 20 Gb drive is more than enough. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
