Shopping Cart to Mailbox: 4200rpm: $49.99 SSD: $999.99 On Friday 25 July 2008 4:05:35 pm David Alanis wrote: > Quoting Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu>: > > On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, David Alanis wrote: > >> This months Linux Journal has a good article on solid state drives and > >> they talk about their comparison against a 4200 RPM 1.8 drive. > > > > Are 4200 RPM 1.8" drives used in notebooks? > > > > So what did they find? Was SSD faster than HDD? > > The tests were done on a Laptop - Fujitsu P1610 Intel 1.2GHz ULV Core > Solo with 1GB RAM. Also, pointed out that it will vary depending on > the OS and packages of course. You will have to buy the mag to read > the complete article :) > > I have to get going here but the results are as follows: > > Grub to login > 4200rpm: 50sec. > SSD: 34sec. > > Login to Desktop > 4200rpm: 59sec. > SSD: 23sec. > > Untar Kernel 2.6.22 > 4200rpm: 66sec. > SSD: 53sec. > > Suspend to Disk > 4200rpm: 75sec. > SSD: 50sec. > > Grub to Resume > 4200rpm: 83sec. > SSD: 38sec. > > David > > >> Does anyone own or have used a SSD? > > > > Not me. > > > > Mike > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list