On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 1:11 AM, Aaron Stellman <[email protected]> wrote: > Since the prices on SSD are falling I'm thinking about aquiring one. > Before I do that however, I'd like to see some quantified benchmarks. > I'd really appreciate if anyone could comment on perfomance figures and > maybe even send results of bonnie/bonnie++ benchmark on any SSD drive > on OpenBSD.
Depends on what you're doing (reading vs writing vs seeking), but here's one example. With an Intel X25 SSD, a cvs checkout from /cvs on the same disk is basically CPU bound. With sync mounts, no softdep.

