[ale] SSD speeds

[Derek Atkins]

Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> writes:

> Yesterday I received two systems we ordered and installed CentOS 6.5
> on them.  I am ignorant of SSD speeds and these systems have 2
> 128gb/ea I'm running as RAID1 via mdtools. I'm amazed at the speed
> compared to the SATA II/III drives I've been using.
>
> In the past we've used drives because we wanted space.  In this
> project I would be happy with a 20GB SSD so space is not an issue.  I
> decided to give it a try. I like them.
>
> Are write speeds slower that standard drives?  Is there any reason I
> should not move forward with this model of using SSD in our systems vs
> real drives?

I put a 1TB 2.5" Samsung EVO SSD into my new ThinkPad laptop.  I love
it!  I'm no longer ever sitting in disk-wait -- everything is CPU or
Network bound instead of disk I/O bound!  It's wonderful.

-derek

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