[GRLUG] Solid State Drives

[Michael Mol]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Collin Kidder <adderd at kkmfg.com> wrote:
> Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>> On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 12:14 -0500, Collin Kidder wrote:
>> If your server or workstation's storage's maximum throughput is 30MB/s
>> then its crap.  For a laptop where you've only got one lousy spindle,
>> then yes, you really don't want to page (assuming you have a choice).
>> But a laptop is portable, so sometimes one just has to live with it.
>>
> I don't believe that even desktop harddrives can sustain better than
> 30-40MB/s. Now, servers can be reading off of multiple drives with
> multiple platters and can reach much higher throughput.
>

Western Digital's VelociRaptor can sustain 77MB/s, but seeking will
blow that.  I believe Intel's SSD offerings include a drive capable of
80MB/s.  I don't know about the vanilla Caviar line.

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