On Fri, February 19, 2010 13:50, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>
>>> Too bad, I'm getting ~1000 IOPS with an Intel X25-M G2 MLC and around
>>> 300 with a regular USB stick, so 50 IOPS is really poor for an SLC SSD.
>>
>> Well, but the Intel X25-M is the drive that really first cracked the
>> problem (earlier high-performance drives were hideously expensive and
>> rather brute force).  Which was relatively recently.  The industry is
>> still evolving rapidly.
>
> What is the problem is it that the X25-M cracked?  The X25-M is
> demonstrated to ignore cache sync and toss transactions.  As such, it
> is useless for a ZIL.

But it's finally useful as, for example, a notebook boot drive.  No
previous vaguely affordable design was.

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