Lior, - Can you please specify vendor and model of your SSD drive ? second - which File System do you have on it ? DS
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Lior Okman <l...@okman.name> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Dan Shimshoni <danshi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> 2 Questions about SSD drives: >> >> First, I would appreciate of someone who has SSD disk will >> run >> hdparm -t /dev/sda >> and post the results here. (In the spirit of the recent thread about >> HW for linux). >> >> I have >> /dev/sda: >> Timing buffered disk reads: 586 MB in 3.01 seconds = 194.68 MB/sec >> And it interests me to compare results >> > > I have : > > hdparm -t /dev/sdc > > /dev/sdc: > Timing buffered disk reads: 988 MB in 3.00 seconds = 329.27 MB/sec > > >> >> >> Does a result of, let's say, 400 MB/sec, which is double speed comparing >> the >> above result, will boost a task of building a linux kernel (on a dual >> core machine) >> in about 1.5 or 2? >> >> Second question: >> I must admit that I am a newbie with SSD, so this question might seem >> obvoious to others: >> I saw that inner SSD disks, which are sold in stores like KSP/Ivory, >> are in laptop form factor (2.5''). >> >> Is there some reason that there are no inner 3.5'' disks for Desktops >> (there >> are extenal SSD which can be , so I believe, used with desktops) ? >> Is there something which prevent us from connecting 2.5'' inner SSD to >> a desktop (I mean STAT2- based or SATA3-based) ? >> > > SATA connectors for 2.5 and 3.5 drives are the same (power as well as data). > You can mount your 2.5 drive in a desktop, but if you don't have any 2.5 > bays (which are available in some enclosures specifically for SSD drives), > there are kits of 2.5 to 3.5 brakets you can buy (e.g., > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817994085 ). > >> >> DS >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il