With the number of netbooks on the market continuing to
increase each month and more of these mobile devices switching to
solid-state drives for their reliability, extended battery life, and
faster performance, SSDs are becoming quite common and finding
themselves meeting many Linux hosts. How though does the real-world
performance differ between hard disk drives and solid-state drives on
Linux? We have run several tests atop Ubuntu on a Samsung netbook with a
HDD and SSD. In addition, we have also looked at the encryption
performance using both types of drives.
Check it out at Phoronix.
Linux Solid-State Drive Benchmarks
Posted on Saturday, January 03 2009 @ 18:19 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck