SSD Performance

[Federico Lucifredi]

Hello Computing Performance,
Kyle Rankin has an interesting piece benchmarking current generation
SSDs in six different ways on Linux Journal of October (now only
online/paywalled, no more paper edition), "Return to Solid State".

Kyle compares login time, desktop startup, hdparam, bonnie++,
(virtualbox torture test), and filesystem traversal.

In most tests, Kyle shows two-times (or better) performance from the
SSD drive, although the torture test was malformed (CPU bound) and
produced inconclusive results.

One interesting bit is that in some hardware (intel 320 referred to
explicitly), some of the smaller capacity drives have lower
performance - so per-drive metrics are in order, more than per-
series. Editor Shawn Powers makes the same point in a video on LJ's
site.

Nothing earth-shaking, but a nice comparison of some basic numbers
between a 7200 RPM drive and a recent SSD.

Best -Federico

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