15 Nov
2018
15 Nov
'18
12:02 p.m.
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net> writes:
On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 16:17:43 -1000, David W. Jones
wrote:
And your SSD does not have an internal cache? Are you sure about that?
The speed difference between that $50 spinning
disk and an SSD is
phenomenal.
It is and nobody should worry about "greatly reduced access speeds",
if the SSD has got no cache. With the SSDs I mentioned, I can turn on
the computer and use the display manager's greeter to log in after
around 2 seconds. This is "reduced access speed" nearly nobody
could notice, at least
not if you migrate from a HDD to such a SSD and neither for averaged
desktop work, nor for real-time audio work.
Real-time audio work does not mind disks braking transfer speeds to
Flash speeds, including the pauses for wear management, internal
allocation, block erasure?
I've been caught out flat a lot fantasizing about how I'd wanted to
imagine computing to be. I would recommend some restraint distributing
advice on that base.
--
David Kastrup