On Wed, 1 Jun 2016, Pete Turnbull wrote: > Not so slow that it's awful on an Indy (apart maybe from booting), but > noticeably slower than people expect on faster machines. The ACARD ones > seem to be faster. Perhaps it won't matter for older machines.
The Acard device is @250 bucks. It appears that the SCSI2SD is $50-$100 depending who who is selling. I can tell you that the ACARD device is much faster than the Seagate Barracuda drive I was using before in my R5k Indy. I did a test using several benchmarks. There wasn't a single metric which was better on the old drive. The biggest change was in latency. It made a serious difference using the machine as a desktop. It also worked outstandingly well as a video capture destination - no dropped frames. I use a 2.5" 128G Samsung 850 Pro SATA disk internally inside the 3.5" device. -Swift
