JRT> I was considering buying a small 1-2 GByte flash disk form my system so JRT> I was looking over what was available and didn't find what I wanted.
JRT> This should considerably speed up a typical desktop Linux system if used JRT> for swap. JRT> JRT> Perhaps SD cards are a better idea. I thought these devices had a limited number of writes, and thus were a bad choice for things like swap? Do you have main memory maxed out? For swap you don't need non-volatile memory. There are PCI cards that accept memory and pretend to be a very fast disk. JRT> So far I could only find them with DMA 0 which seems to be limited by JRT> the card speed. DMA 0 is 16 MB/sec. The fastest CF (133x) is 20 MB/s. JRT> SDs come slightly faster at 22.5 MB/sec which is still slower than DMA 1. A 7200 rpm SATA drive does 40 MB/s sustained at the slow end of the platters, and 65-70MB/s sustained at the fast end. Are you trying to avoid moving parts? Product idea: How about a PCIe card with 8 SATA ports and a documented protocol for NCQ? _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
