[clue-talk] Benefits of SSDs : was new processors

[YES NOPE9]

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> On Jan 4, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Nate Duehr wrote:
>
> Quick note: Sorry, top-posted because I'm on a webmail interface right
> now...
>
> The speed difference between disk and everything else
> (processor/RAM/video/etc) is being closed with SSD drives.  Still not
> "100% ready for prime time" yet, looking over some of the errata on  
> the
> early drives, but... with a good brand name (meaning: Intel right  
> now),
> I'd trust one.
>
> (Some of the others have had some lovely bugs in firmware.  Kinda  
> makes
> sense, Intel's a chip manufacturer and the hard drive manufacturers  
> are
> learning how to do that, in a way.)
>
> Having seen a couple of machines with SSD's in them doing various  
> tasks,
> I can unequivocally state that the spinning hard disk platter for
> anything other than mass storage, is dead.  It just doesn't know it  
> yet.
>
> My next personal laptop will have an SSD for the OS's and swap, for
> sure... and the data for whatever e-mail and PIM type client software
> I'm using will also go on it to speed those common applications up.
>
> It's too big of a performance increase to ignore, from what I've seen.
>
> --
>  Nate Duehr
>  nate at natetech.com


What kind of performance gains have you seen ?
If you provide anecdotal stories  that is fine .
What kind of data rates and latency do you get out of SSDs ?
Gus