hard drive test...this cant be right

[98cwitr]

I have a plain Seagate 500GB and it's a few years old and I was thinking about going SSD. Just out of curiosity I wanted to see what specs this one has, so I ran this:


sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 10950 MB in 2.00 seconds = 5484.53 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 314 MB in 3.01 seconds = 104.48 MB/sec


104.48MB/sec read? I've run the tests several times with the same results. At $300+ for a decent sized SSD, it might not be worth it, I just want to boot in 6 seconds :D

[tgalati4]

Put your computer in suspend mode and it will wake in 6 seconds. New disks are fast--better controllers and higher data density.

[tommcd]

I have a plain Seagate 500GB and it's a few years old and I was thinking about going SSD.
If you are interested in the performance of SSD drives in linux, Phoronix has done several reviews of SSD drives:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_ssd_performance&num=1
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_x25e_ssd_linux&num=1
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_x25e_filesystems&num=1
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ocz_vertex_ssd&num=1

[98cwitr]

looking at that it wouldnt be worth it in the first place

[98cwitr]

ok getting some different review results for linux OSs...SSD are yielding so really nice gains.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=9190