Re: SSD for Centos SWAP /tmp & /var/ partition

[Emmanuel Noobadmin <centos.admin@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/26/11, Kevin K <kevink1@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Though thumb drives are flash, they tend to use a slower flash than what is
> used in hard drive replacement units.

No actual industry facts for this, but I think the Flash used in thumb
drives are not really any slower by nature/design. This is because I
see that the fastest SSD currently tend to use 8 channel controllers
for 200+ MB/s performance which translate to 20~30MB/sec per channel.

The better USB 2.0 thumb drives can do about 20+ MB, Kingston even has
a new one that will supposedly do 70+ when connected via USB 3.0. If
we take 8 of these and RAID 0 them which is pretty much what the
8-channel controller is doing, we're looking at pretty similar numbers
between the flash cells in thumb drives and "SSD".


>I think that many people, when talking about SSD, may be thinking of drives in the form factor of a hard drive.  Either 2.5" or 3.5".  Which would probably not be called a thumb
> drive :)

Only because it doesn't come with a USB connector! ;)
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