21 May
2007
21 May
'07
5:54 p.m.
On Monday 21 May 2007, david wrote:
Michael Nelson wrote:
The new Samsung NSSD achieve much better performance: read=53MB/s,
write=30MB/s with 0.24ms access time.
<http://www.samsung.com/Products/Semiconductor/FlashSSD/ModuleType.htm>
I'm interested in using a
CompactFlash-to-SATA adapter, and booting
from a CF card. Does anyone know what the speed/reliability would
be like?
I think it would be pretty slow - my CF cards seem to give only
5-6MB/sec transfer. Even my slowest hard drives run a LOT faster than
that. Plus - CF has a limited lifespan when it comes to
writing to the
card.
Modern SSD all use Wear Leveling to improve the lifespan, to get
actually better results than hard disks now.
The only drawback to SSD is the price: 600EUR for 32GB is not really
cheap.
-a.