Luis
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Ted Unangst <ted.unan...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 1:11 AM, Aaron Stellman <openbsd-m...@x96.org> 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. > > A paper with good insights on SSDs is "Understanding intrinsic characteristics and system implications of flash memory based solid state drives" published on SIGMETRICS. Luis
