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Is it worth getting a SSD drive?

Started by cytan, 2009.07.27, 11:11:45

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RobertM

Quote from: oli on 2009.07.30, 21:01:49
Quote from: RobertM on 2009.07.28, 21:02:46
Well, one interesting thing I have not seen covered is what type of machine the SSD is going to be used in. The advantages of SSD are obviously a lot greater with a newer machine with a wider/faster data bus. I am guessing that anything (except horrendously cheap mobos) that supports SATA II/300 should see a better advantage.

Not really, most dives have not even reached the 133mbs max rate of and IDE bus, the best drives actually eek out their performance by using huge caches, the G-skill has a whopping 64mb of cache while most hard drives max out at 32, if those SSD drives had a performance that exceeded ATA data rates there would be no need for a cache.

Sorry, I may have mis-expained that. Yes, most HDDs dont reach that amount. Most dont seem to come very close for sustained reads. But that wasn't what I was trying to say. Since the SSDs can transfer much faster, they will see a marked improvement on a SATA II machine with a decent (or better) bus in comparison to running them on something ancient that will not support the throughput that the SSDs are capable of.

Sorry for the confusion in what I wrote.

Rob


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CDRWSel

Hi !

I just took a sysbench 0.9.5c test on my SSD drive and here are the results.

Saijin_Naib

Seems to have a nice controller built in, the CPU usage is pretty low.