From: Marco Peereboom (slashpeereboom.us)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2008 - 16:21:13 CDT

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SSD is currently a myth. They aren't better faster greater etc. Maybe
the next generation...

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 09:04:42PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2008-04-29, Morris, Roy <rmorrisinternetsecure.com> wrote:
> > I have been reading around the archives a bit and found a few
> > references to using 4.3 to get the full performance out of a
> > Transcend SSD but my results are showing that the drive is
> > slower on all fronts.
>
> Do you mean, slower with 4.3 than previous versions, or slower
> than spinning hard drive?
>
> > Anyone know if there is a magic switch I can throw to make
> > the OS use this type of drive at full speed?
>
> If we had a magic switch, it would already be set..
>
> With your dd tests, you're missing the area where flashcards/SSD
> have a big performance advantage (heavy seeking/random reads).

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