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>>>> I'm considering buying a solid-state drive to improve I/O performance |
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>>>> and even reduce noise. Has anyone tried this? I was considering |
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>>>> getting the lowest capacity I can find and putting most of the system |
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>>>> on it. There is a roundup on tomshardware.com and it sounds like some |
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>>>> are very much better than others. SLC sounds vastly superior compared |
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>>>> to MLC, but also much more expensive. |
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> On the topic of using CF for the job... just looking at |
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> http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=6007, which |
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> doesn't take CF -> SATA adaptors into account, the highest read speed |
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> across the board is about 50MB/s, which is half of what the |
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> Velociraptor averages (and 1/5 of its burst read). |
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I think my real reason for posting this is I'm unhappy with my IO |
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performance. I've got a 320GB Seagate SATAII drive. How much better |
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can I do with conventional hard disks? Is there a test I can run to |
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make sure my Seagate is performing as it should? |
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- Grant |
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