Thank for all your comments. I've tried the CF card SSD and it's no better. It gives an hdparm -t figure of about 20M compared with 50M for my internal drive so predictably it takes longer to start up, but I'd hoped that faster random access might give an overall improvement. Sadly it's actually slightly worse even in normal use :-(
That was the fun experiment so got done first! Now to the more boring steps of finding out what's causing it to lag. Thanks for pointing me to iotop. I'll report back. ATB, Peter On 8 March 2013 11:03, Paul Stimpson <p...@stimpsonfamily.co.uk> wrote: > > > Alan Pope <alan.p...@canonical.com> wrote: > >>On 07/03/13 22:44, Peter Salisbury wrote: >>> PS I have a USB adapter on order from China for a 32Gig UDMA CF card >>I >>> have. Thought I might try it as an SSD! >>> >> > > I wouldn't be surprised if this combination didn't perform especially well or > speak for the lifetime of the card. Devices marketed as SSDs will have > advanced wear leveling and also should support SMART so you should hopefully > get some warning before the device goes south. I don't know if you will get > this with a card. > > >>I put a real SSD in my Revo. Well, I put an SSD in basically every >>machine I own :) >> >>It makes a tremendous difference. >> > > +1 for that. I have an OCZ Agility 3 SSD in my laptop and if I change it back > to a spinning disc for testing the machine suddenly feels like a dog. > > > Cheers, > Paul. > -- > Sent from Kaiten Mail on Android. Please excuse my brevity. > > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
