Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: > On 06/10/2010 04:53 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: >> I'm thinking of getting an Intel 160 GB SSD. How would it work under >> Linux ? > > F12 and F13 both work awesomely with the Intel SSDs. Run, don't walk, > and buy some! > > I've replaced ~6 drives here at work with the 80 GB drives. > > The speed difference and the silent operation are really, really, really > nice. > > Best thing ever! Spinning disks seem so quaint now. (Well, OK, the > fileservers still need spinning disks.) > > Did I mention I was impressed by them? :-) I switched to a 128GB Toshiba 1.8" SSD a few days ago (they have a 256GB too). The difference with a (7200rpm) disk is immense. Random reads really fly, everything starts up as if already cached. I tried this benchmark: echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches time find $HOME|wc -l It drops the disk caches (so we force a worst case scenario) and then counts how many files I have in my home dir. I have 450,000 files and the command finished after 35 seconds. That is 12,000 files/s. The throughput measured by gkrellm was 6-10 MB/s. These are *wonderful* numbers; try it on a spinning disk, if you do not believe me. (for completeness, the filesystem was reiserfs) -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
