SSD drives

[Lior Okman]

On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Dan Shimshoni <danshimsh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lior,
> - Can you please specify vendor and model of your SSD drive ?
>

It's a 180Gb Intel 520 Series SSD with firmware version 400i.


> second - which File System  do you have on it ?
>

I have an ext4 filesystem on it.


> DS
>

Lior


>
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Lior Okman <lior at okman.name> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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