On Sat, 2011-05-07 at 21:49 +0300, Elazar Leibovich wrote: > On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 4:06 PM, guy keren <c...@actcom.co.il> wrote: > > if you eventually decide that it is indeed disk I/O that slows > you down, > and if you have a lot of money to spend - you could consider > buying an > enterprise-grade SSD (e.g. from fusion I/O or from OCZ - > although for > your use-case, some of the cheaper SSDs will do) and use it > instead of > the hard disks. they only cost thousands of dollars for a > 600GB SSD ;) > > > Is there a reason you're recommending such an expensive drives? > I thought some time ago to buy a "regular" 40-80Gb and install the OS > +swap there, and have a "regular" drive around for the rest of the > data. Is there a reason this won't work?
are you talking about using a low-end SSD? the problem with them, is that often their throughput for sequential operations is lower then that of normal hard disks. or are you talking about something different? --guy _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
