Keep in mind that all Solid State Disks are NOT the same. I made the same mistake and purchased a Transcend 8 GB model. My 8 GB model used old technology and not the newer, faster flash. It was noticeably slower than traditional spinning disks.
Just check some of the published specs and benchmarks and compare: http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3133&p=5 http://www.transcendusa.com/support/dlcenter/datasheet/SSD25S%20Datasheet%20v1.03.pdf (look at page 3 of that pdf) More reading from a vendor: http://www.dvnation.com/ssdfaq.html John On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 09:35:15AM -0400, Morris, Roy 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. I am wondering if anyone has tried these > tests and what the results might have been? > > Anyone know if there is a magic switch I can throw to make > the OS use this type of drive at full speed? > > Thanks > Roy > > Drive: Transcend TS32GSSD25-M (32G) > OS - 4.3 snapshot from 04/28/2008 > > > PE 350 - Regular HD (Write Time) > roy:/home/rmorris$ dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile.blk bs=65536 count=16384 > 16384+0 records in > 16384+0 records out > 1073741824 bytes transferred in 55.392 secs (19384111 bytes/sec) > > PE 350 - SSD HD (Write Time) > # dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile.blk bs=65536 count=16384 > 16384+0 records in > 16384+0 records out > 1073741824 bytes transferred in 176.273 secs (6091344 bytes/sec) > > PE 350 - Regular HD (Read time) > roy:/home/rmorris$ dd if=testfile.blk of=/dev/null bs=65536 count=16384 > 16384+0 records in > 16384+0 records out > 1073741824 bytes transferred in 40.165 secs (26732730 bytes/sec) > > PE 350 - SSD HD (Read Time) > # dd if=testfile.blk of=/dev/null bs=65536 count=16384 > 16384+0 records in > 16384+0 records out > 1073741824 bytes transferred in 50.842 secs (21118975 bytes/sec)
