On 2/26/07, John Floren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2/26/07, David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/26/07, Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2/26/07, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > you might want a cf:pata adaptor. if you really need sata, chain a > > > sata:pata adaptor. it's a bit messy, but cf is easier to get, > > > cheeper per gigabyte and faster than flash drives. > > > > but still pretty slow, even compared to magnetic disk. > > > > Read at about 70MB/s write at about 60MB/s. > > It's probably fast enough for my home use. > > http://www.adtron.com/products/I25fb-IDEFlashDisk.html > > Honestly I'm not sure what I get from my disks, I tend to go pretty > low end though when I buy them. :-) > hdparm gives me about 314 MB/s read for cached read, 23 MB/s for buffered read on my 6-year-old, 80GB hard drive.
I get 20.94MB/sec in parallels with Fedora Core 4. Turning DMA on in Parallels ups me to 35.89MB/sec Cached reads show 1440.06 MB/sec in Parallels though so I have no idea what the heck it's really measuring :-) At any rate, I'm getting along fine with virtualized OSes and almost never expect amazing performance from Plan 9 compared to Linux and other OSes. In fact, I'd say performance of "good enough" is often just that for my home use. I'm not one of those gentoo people :-)
John -- Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
