SSD drives

[Dan Shimshoni]

Lior,
- Can you please specify vendor and model of your SSD drive ?
second - which File System  do you have on it ?
DS

On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Lior Okman <lior at okman.name> wrote:
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> On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Dan Shimshoni <danshimsh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>
> I have :
>
> hdparm -t /dev/sdc
>
> /dev/sdc:
>  Timing buffered disk reads: 988 MB in  3.00 seconds = 329.27 MB/sec
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>
>>
>>
>> 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)  ?
>>
>
> SATA connectors for 2.5 and 3.5 drives are the same (power as well as data).
> You can mount your 2.5 drive in a desktop, but if you don't have any 2.5
> bays (which are available in some enclosures specifically for SSD drives),
> there are kits of 2.5 to 3.5 brakets you can buy (e.g.,
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817994085 ).
>
>>
>> DS
>>
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