On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 06:28:06PM +0200, André Gall wrote: > Hi Marc, > > thank you very much for your detailed investigation. I wanted to buy the > Samsung SSD 830 in the next few days to replace my old SSD. I chose this > drive explicitely because of it's "supposed" performance with encrypted > data according to the benchmarks of incompressible data all around the > internet. Seems like I should rethink this decision :) That's also why I bought it, and obviously it didn't work out. I seem to remember that the OCZ Vertex 4 also does ok with data that doesn't compress. > >Samsung's old Benchmark registered so low on their own Random IO test > >that the bar graph showing speed was a single line at the '0' mark. > > You don't happen to have a screenshot of this? This would make it much > easier for people to understand there's something wrong! Sure thing. Page updated: http://marc.merlins.org/perso/linux/post_2012-08-15_The-tale-of-SSDs_-Crucial-C300-early-Death_-Samsung-830-extreme-random-IO-slowness_-and-settling-with-OCZ-Vertex-4.html Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
