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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:45:06
Message-Id: 200811272244.59816.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive? by Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)
1 On Donnerstag 27 November 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote:
2 > Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> wrote:
3 > > On Donnerstag 27 November 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote:
4 > > > Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> wrote:
5 > > > > well, harddisks go up to what, 100mb/sec?
6 > > > > cfdisk - 18mb/sec?
7 > > >
8 > > > You may talk about cheap small USB solutions.
9 > > >
10 > > > The OCZ SSD I tested last week gives 120 MB/s read and 82 MB/s write
11 > > > speed.
12 > >
13 > > no, I talk about 'standard' cf-disks. Slow ones are 3mb/sec. Fast ones
14 > > are up to 30mb/sec. Insansely expensive ones are up to ~50mb/sec
15 >
16 > What do you understand by "cf-disks"?
17 >
18 > Are you talking about CF cards in a sata or ata adaptor?
19
20 excatly, because Grant wrote:
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23 >Great idea. If I'm only putting the main system on flash, I could use
24 >a CFcard instead of an SSD. Storing music and videos on flash will be
25 >too expensive for awhile. How does CFcard performance compare to SSD
26 >or conventional hard disk performance?
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28 >
29 > I was taking about a 2.5 inch 128 GB SATA SSD at ~ 360 Euro
30 >
31 > This is still cheaper than cheap and slow Sandisk CF or SDHC cards.
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33 and for 360¤ you can also buy 3 1TB Sata Harddisks and make a little Raid5.