Jooseppi;331235 Wrote: > Have any of you experimented with SSDs? You can DIY a very fast small > SSD reletively cheap. Just get an ultra fast CF card (around 45MB/s, > UDMA) and put in a PATA adapter and hoot up to computer. Those things > are fast. The adapters cost under 10 dollars and 4GB cards some tens of > dollars. The seek times on flash drives are mind blowingly little. Maybe > flash could be a way to increase the so called snap factor?
Unfortunately the slowness you're seeing is not due to disk I/O. As I indicated I have a slower server which accessed the music collection over my network. Sure rescan times were longer (7 minutes versus 3 minutes locally) but SC operation was almost as fast. I'm comparing a 1.2 GHz AMD Duron with 512 MB of single-channel PC-2100 RAM versus a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo E6600 with 2 GB of double-channel PC2-4200 RAM. That's a huge difference but SC operation was largely unaffected. However both were running Ubuntu Linux. It's probably more related to how the OS interacts with perl and MySQL, which in my uneducated opinion is probably mostly due to the OS itself and a little bit on memory I/O. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51305 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
