SSD drives

[Dan Shimshoni]

Hi,

2 Questions about SSD drives:

First, I would appreciate of someone who has SSD disk will
run
hdparm -t /dev/sda
and post the results here. (In the spirit of the recent thread about
HW for linux).

I have
/dev/sda:
 Timing buffered disk reads: 586 MB in  3.01 seconds = 194.68 MB/sec
And it interests me to compare results


Does a result of, let's say, 400  MB/sec, which is double speed comparing the
above result, will boost a task of building a linux kernel (on a dual
core machine)
in about 1.5 or 2?

Second question:
I must admit that I am a newbie with SSD, so this question might seem
obvoious to others:
I saw that inner SSD disks, which are sold in stores like KSP/Ivory,
are in laptop form factor (2.5'').

Is there some reason that there are no inner 3.5'' disks for Desktops (there
	are extenal SSD which can be , so I believe, used with desktops) ?
Is there something which prevent us from connecting 2.5'' inner SSD to
a desktop (I mean STAT2- based or SATA3-based)  ?

DS