There is a protocol that aligns the block size used by the OS with the block size used by the drive. This can minimize writes depending on the application.
Not sure if the wear leveling realignment utilities are generally released. You can probably find them somewhere. Increasing the number of blocks allocated to wear leveling spreads the pain so to speak. -Dave Walton On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:53 AM, Allan Streib <str...@cs.indiana.edu> wrote: > Alex Chamberlain <apchamberl...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Dave Walton wrote: >>> If speed is paramount, buy a larger drive, format it to a lower capacity, >>> and run the manufacturer's utility to add the extra space into the wear >>> leveling cache. That will speed up writes. >> >> Are these utilities something you run in Windows to set firmware >> parameters on the drive? > > I thought the current generation of SSDs had the wear-leveling built in, > so that filesystems didn't have to worry about it. > > Allan > -- > 1983 300D > 1979 300SD > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
