On Sun, 2011-05-08 at 00:21 +0300, Elazar Leibovich wrote: > > > On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 12:20 AM, guy keren <c...@actcom.co.il> wrote: > > > are you talking about using a low-end SSD? > > > I'm actually not a big SSD expert, but I'm talking about relatively > cheap SSD you can find in Ivory/Ksp, for instance Intel's > http://www.zap.co.il/model.aspx?modelid=751136 > > > the problem with them, is that often their throughput for > sequential > operations is lower then that of normal hard disks. > > > Yeah, but what matters for the average user's computer speed is the > random access speed, even if copying the 1Gb file will be a bit > slower, when using the computer it'll be much faster, wouldn't it?
i guess the answer will be "it depends" :0 the fact is that a desktop user still does a lot of sequential I/O - so the sequential I/O speed still matters. another thing to note - the SSDs tend to start performing much worse if you fill them up to their max capacity. better use them in a lower capacity (e.g. 70-80% fill-factor), to keep their performance sane. i suggest that, once you get this drive, you come and tell us if you feel an improvement. then, once year after that - tell us again. --guy _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il