Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm considering buying a solid-state drive to improve I/O performance and even reduce noise. Has anyone tried this? I was considering getting the lowest capacity I can find and putting most of the system on it. There is a roundup on tomshardware.com and it

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread KH
Joerg Schilling schrieb: Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm considering buying a solid-state drive to improve I/O performance and even reduce noise. Has anyone tried this? I was considering getting the lowest capacity I can find and putting most of the system on it. There is a roundup

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread Stroller
On 27 Nov 2008, at 02:08, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 27 November 2008, Grant wrote: I'm considering buying a solid-state drive to improve I/O performance and even reduce noise. Has anyone tried this? I was considering getting the lowest capacity I can find and putting most of

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread Grant
I'm considering buying a solid-state drive to improve I/O performance and even reduce noise. Has anyone tried this? I was considering getting the lowest capacity I can find and putting most of the system on it. There is a roundup on tomshardware.com and it sounds like some are very much

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 27 Nov 2008, at 02:08, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 27 November 2008, Grant wrote: I'm considering buying a solid-state drive to improve I/O performance and even reduce noise. Has anyone tried this? I was

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 27 November 2008, Grant wrote: I'm considering buying a solid-state drive to improve I/O performance and even reduce noise. Has anyone tried this? I was considering getting the lowest capacity I can find and putting most of the system on it. There is a roundup on

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread Grant
I'm considering buying a solid-state drive to improve I/O performance and even reduce noise. Has anyone tried this? I was considering getting the lowest capacity I can find and putting most of the system on it. There is a roundup on tomshardware.com and it sounds like some are very much

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread James
On Thu, November 27, 2008 11:05 am, Grant wrote: I'm considering buying a solid-state drive to improve I/O performance and even reduce noise. Has anyone tried this? I was considering getting the lowest capacity I can find and putting most of the system on it. There is a roundup on

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I think my real reason for posting this is I'm unhappy with my IO performance. I've got a 320GB Seagate SATAII drive. How much better can I do with conventional hard disks? Is there a test I can run to make sure my Seagate is performing as it should? How about you go to single user mode

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Donnerstag 27 November 2008, Grant wrote: I'm considering buying a solid-state drive to improve I/O performance and even reduce noise. Has anyone tried this? I was considering getting the lowest capacity I

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well, harddisks go up to what, 100mb/sec? cfdisk - 18mb/sec? You may talk about cheap small USB solutions. The OCZ SSD I tested last week gives 120 MB/s read and 82 MB/s write speed. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread Stroller
On 27 Nov 2008, at 16:37, Joshua Murphy wrote: ... I think the last anecdote I read on this subject was written by Trubox (Truebox?) on the Openmoko-community list a month or two ago. They sell Aserisk systems to small business (in my area, as it happens) and I would imagine that

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 27 November 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well, harddisks go up to what, 100mb/sec? cfdisk - 18mb/sec? You may talk about cheap small USB solutions. The OCZ SSD I tested last week gives 120 MB/s read and 82 MB/s write speed. no,

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Donnerstag 27 November 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well, harddisks go up to what, 100mb/sec? cfdisk - 18mb/sec? You may talk about cheap small USB solutions. The OCZ SSD I tested last

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 27 November 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Donnerstag 27 November 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well, harddisks go up to what, 100mb/sec? cfdisk - 18mb/sec? You may talk

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread KH
well, harddisks go up to what, 100mb/sec? cfdisk - 18mb/sec? ssd in future might be a lot faster: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/BHzT0mM7DRw/article.pl kh

[gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-26 Thread Grant
I'm considering buying a solid-state drive to improve I/O performance and even reduce noise. Has anyone tried this? I was considering getting the lowest capacity I can find and putting most of the system on it. There is a roundup on tomshardware.com and it sounds like some are very much better

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 27 November 2008, Grant wrote: I'm considering buying a solid-state drive to improve I/O performance and even reduce noise. Has anyone tried this? I was considering getting the lowest capacity I can find and putting most of the system on it. There is a roundup on