Disk I/O as a bottleneck?

[Elazar Leibovich]

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 12:20 AM, guy keren <choo at actcom.co.il> wrote:

>
> are you talking about using a low-end SSD?
>

I'm actually not a big SSD expert, but I'm talking about relatively cheap
SSD you can find in Ivory/Ksp, for instance Intel's
http://www.zap.co.il/model.aspx?modelid=751136


>
> the problem with them, is that often their throughput for sequential
> operations is lower then that of normal hard disks.
>

Yeah, but what matters for the average user's computer speed is the random
access speed, even if copying the 1Gb file will be a bit slower, when using
the computer it'll be much faster, wouldn't it?
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