Re: Hard drive read speeds

This may not answer all your questions, but I found it to be a very good
read:

http://www.dansdata.com/flashswap.htm

Reid

Conrad Knauer wrote:
> On 2/26/07, Jason Ish <ish@unx.ca> wrote:
>
>> > Can someone point me to some good info on hard drive reading speeds?
>> > More specifically, if software needs to do a great deal of reading
>> from
>> > lots of different files, how would a pair of 7200rpm drives in RAID 0
>> > compare to one 10K rpm drive?
>> >
>> > Do any of you use 10K rpm drives in desktop machines? Are they still
>> > really loud?
>>
>> Jeff Atwood over at codinghorror.com just blogged about this the other
>> day, its worth a read:
>>
>> You Want a 10,000 RPM Boot Drive
>> http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000800.html
>
> Hmm... I just noticed a comment at the bottom of the article
> mentioning Solid State (aka Flash) HDs; how are those in terms of
> price/lifespan/availablity these days? Ubuntu and all the apps I
> could ever want would happily fit in an 8 GB drive...
>
> CK
>
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Received on Tue Feb 27 01:33:31 2007