Re: [9fans] Venti flash device?

["David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

On 2/26/07, John Floren <slawmaster@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/26/07, David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 2/26/07, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> > > On 2/26/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:
> > > > you might want a cf:pata adaptor.  if you really need sata, chain a
> > > > sata:pata adaptor.  it's a bit messy, but cf is easier to get,
> > > > cheeper per gigabyte and faster than flash drives.
> > >
> > > but still pretty slow, even compared to magnetic disk.
> > >
> >
> > Read at about 70MB/s write at about 60MB/s.
> >
> > It's probably fast enough for my home use.
> >
> > http://www.adtron.com/products/I25fb-IDEFlashDisk.html
> >
> > Honestly I'm not sure what I get from my disks, I tend to go pretty
> > low end though when I buy them. :-)
> >
> hdparm gives me about 314 MB/s read for cached read, 23 MB/s for
> buffered read on my 6-year-old, 80GB hard drive.

I get 20.94MB/sec in parallels with Fedora Core 4.

Turning DMA on in Parallels ups me to 35.89MB/sec

Cached reads show 1440.06 MB/sec in Parallels though so I have no idea
what the heck it's really measuring :-)

At any rate, I'm getting along fine with virtualized OSes and almost
never expect amazing performance from Plan 9 compared to Linux and
other OSes.

In fact, I'd say performance of "good enough" is often just that for
my home use.

I'm not one of those gentoo people :-)

>
>
> John
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