On 03Oct2020 08:51, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: >On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 02:47:46PM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: >> >Even *copying* the whole of my 1.5Gb mail hierarchy takes only 8 >> >seconds. >> >> Looks like your filesystem is superior to mine. Mine's MacOS apfs, I >> presume yours is a good Linux fs of some kind. I'd be surprised if the >> SSD hardware were very relevant (other than being an SSD, that is). >> >Linux default ext4 filesystem. It's an nvme SSD, I had a SATA SSD >before and the improvement is *huge*! :-) This is on fairly old >hardware, I had to put an adapter card in the PCIExpress slot and >play quite a few games with Grub and /boot.
That is useful to know. My Mac's a modern 2020 model so should also have an nvme SSD; I'm glad to hear the nvme is subjectively obviously faster than a SATA one, I'd wondered what the difference was like. I've been replacing the spinning rust drives in some of our old Macs with SATA SSDs, which itself brings a huge performance difference. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
