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

[Nate Duehr]

Like I said, I've seen them running various tasks but I don't own one
(yet).  Next machine.

By the time I get around to doing it, I'm sure there will be plenty of
benchmarks available on the Web, better done than I could take the time
to do.  (If there aren't already.)

--
  Nate Duehr
  nate at natetech.com

On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:46 -0700, "YES NOPE9" <yes at nope9.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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
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