Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 16:17:43 -1000, David W. Jones wrote: >>The speed difference between that $50 spinning disk and an SSD is >>phenomenal. > > It is and nobody should worry about "greatly reduced access speeds", > if the SSD has got no cache. With the SSDs I mentioned, I can turn on > the computer and use the display manager's greeter to log in after > around 2 seconds. And your SSD does not have an internal cache? Are you sure about that? > This is "reduced access speed" nearly nobody could notice, at least > not if you migrate from a HDD to such a SSD and neither for averaged > desktop work, nor for real-time audio work. Real-time audio work does not mind disks braking transfer speeds to Flash speeds, including the pauses for wear management, internal allocation, block erasure? I've been caught out flat a lot fantasizing about how I'd wanted to imagine computing to be. I would recommend some restraint distributing advice on that base. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
