[ale] SS/CF drives (was: Hardened Industrial Miniature PCs)

[Pat Regan]

hbbs at comcast.net wrote:
> FWIW, here's a recent article on the subject:  http://tinyurl.com/2fylb5
> 
> Such devices are just disk drives to OSses.  Seems they rule on random read.
> 

It seems they don't all rule at random reads, assuming we can trust Linus:

http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2008/10/so-i-got-one-of-new-intel-ssds.html

He claims that most ssd are bad at small random reads and writes, some
as low as just a few reads/writes per second.  It sounds like Intel's
offering blows everyone else out of the water.

Pat

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