On May 7, 2014, Jerry Feldman wrote: >So, if you had to buy a new 1TB drive and you had a choice between a >high quality consumer SSD and a mechanical drive... [qualifier about "same price" omitted]
No contest! (At least for my purposes.) Here's the result of running "du -shx" on a 3TB Western Digital Red and a 1TB Crucible consumer SSD with about the same number & size of files on them. After clearing the disk caches, of course. Western Digital HD: 46 seconds Crucible SSD: 8 seconds Yeah, it's just one read test, and the WD Red probably isn't the ultimate drive, but in practice the SSD speed is great. (I run two SSDs in RAID 1 as my primary work drive.) My VMs feel faster on the SSD too. YMMV. -- Dan Barrett [email protected] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
