<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Dan Shimshoni <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danshimsh@gmail.com" target="_blank">danshimsh@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Lior,<br>
- Can you please specify vendor and model of your SSD drive ?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It's a 180Gb Intel 520 Series SSD with firmware version 400i.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
second - which File System do you have on it ?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have an ext4 filesystem on it.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
DS<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Lior</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Lior Okman <<a href="mailto:lior@okman.name">lior@okman.name</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Dan Shimshoni <<a href="mailto:danshimsh@gmail.com">danshimsh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Hi,<br>
>><br>
>> 2 Questions about SSD drives:<br>
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>> First, I would appreciate of someone who has SSD disk will<br>
>> run<br>
>> hdparm -t /dev/sda<br>
>> and post the results here. (In the spirit of the recent thread about<br>
>> HW for linux).<br>
>><br>
>> I have<br>
>> /dev/sda:<br>
>> Timing buffered disk reads: 586 MB in 3.01 seconds = 194.68 MB/sec<br>
>> And it interests me to compare results<br>
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> I have :<br>
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> hdparm -t /dev/sdc<br>
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> /dev/sdc:<br>
> Timing buffered disk reads: 988 MB in 3.00 seconds = 329.27 MB/sec<br>
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>> Does a result of, let's say, 400 MB/sec, which is double speed comparing<br>
>> the<br>
>> above result, will boost a task of building a linux kernel (on a dual<br>
>> core machine)<br>
>> in about 1.5 or 2?<br>
>><br>
>> Second question:<br>
>> I must admit that I am a newbie with SSD, so this question might seem<br>
>> obvoious to others:<br>
>> I saw that inner SSD disks, which are sold in stores like KSP/Ivory,<br>
>> are in laptop form factor (2.5'').<br>
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>> Is there some reason that there are no inner 3.5'' disks for Desktops<br>
>> (there<br>
>> are extenal SSD which can be , so I believe, used with desktops) ?<br>
>> Is there something which prevent us from connecting 2.5'' inner SSD to<br>
>> a desktop (I mean STAT2- based or SATA3-based) ?<br>
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> SATA connectors for 2.5 and 3.5 drives are the same (power as well as data).<br>
> You can mount your 2.5 drive in a desktop, but if you don't have any 2.5<br>
> bays (which are available in some enclosures specifically for SSD drives),<br>
> there are kits of 2.5 to 3.5 brakets you can buy (e.g.,<br>
> <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817994085" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817994085</a> ).<br>
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>> DS<br>
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