[Gllug] performance boost for linux

[Peter Corlett]

On 12 Feb 2009, at 22:02, Nix wrote:
> On 11 Feb 2009, Peter Corlett uttered the following:
>>                The seek time on SSDs is about a four hundredth of a
>> hard disk
> What? Its seek time is much closer to zero than that: flipping RAS as
> well as CAS is a bit more expensive than staying within the same row,
> but it's not that close to a disk seek in performance.


Unfortunately, contemporary SSDs aren't directly-addressable by the  
CPU, so you have to account for the USB or SATA bus latency.


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