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Solid state disk: show me
Solid state disk: show me
Posted Mar 27, 2008 9:04 UTC (Thu) by pointwood (subscriber, #2814)In reply to: Solid state disk: show me by jwb
Parent article: Predictive ELF bitmaps
"They're also not very fast, especially when writing. We're getting close, but we're not there yet." Yes, we are getting close. From what I read, we can look forward to 100MB/s writes in the very near future. Furthermore, they scale really well: http://www.nextlevelhardware.com/storage/battleship/
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Solid state disk: show me
Posted Apr 18, 2008 18:31 UTC (Fri) by ranmachan (subscriber, #21283) [Link]
"Yes, we are getting close. From what I read, we can look forward to 100MB/s writes in the very near future." But is that for continuous writes or random writes? The latter case matters more. I replaced the hard disk in my notebook with a compact flash, which can do 20MB/s continuous writes (which - while not exactly fast - would be more than enough performance), but slows to a crawl (in the KB/s range) on random writes, especially when cache flushes are involved (FS metadata updates, fsync&co take ages).