Re: [CentOS] new ssd to play with

2011-09-08 Thread John Doe
From: Karanbir Singh > get a copy of iozone setup on the box, and get it to run through a few > iterations with the 5400rpm disk and then the SSD. FYI, here's an iozone of my SSD (some numbers look a bit strange)... Dunno if I used correct parameters... Auto Mode Command line used: iozone -a -

Re: [CentOS] new ssd to play with

2011-09-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 09/08/2011 02:05 PM, John Doe wrote: > # hdparm -t /dev/sda > Timing buffered disk reads: 636 MB in 3.01 seconds = 211.58 MB/sec > # hdparm -T /dev/sda > Timing cached reads: 18016 MB in 2.00 seconds = 9023.48 MB/sec I'm not a big fan of using hdparm for real benchmarking or comparing

Re: [CentOS] new ssd to play with

2011-09-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 09/07/2011 09:55 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > I am disappointed. I stuck the unit in an Atom machine (zotac) with > CentOS 6 on the disk. > It really doesn't "feel" faster than the previous 5400 RPM drive that > was in it. I'm going to guess, off the top of my head, based on my experience, that yo

Re: [CentOS] new ssd to play with

2011-09-08 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 09/08/2011 03:28 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > On 09/07/2011 10:55 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: >> I grabbed a new SSD M4-CT064M4SSD2 from Crucial. >> >> I am disappointed. I stuck the unit in an Atom machine (zotac) with >> CentOS 6 on the disk. >> It really doesn't "feel" faster than the p

Re: [CentOS] new ssd to play with

2011-09-08 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 09/07/2011 10:55 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: >I grabbed a new SSD M4-CT064M4SSD2 from Crucial. > > I am disappointed. I stuck the unit in an Atom machine (zotac) with > CentOS 6 on the disk. > It really doesn't "feel" faster than the previous 5400 RPM drive that > was in it. > > The SSD is givin

Re: [CentOS] new ssd to play with

2011-09-08 Thread John Doe
From: Jerry Geis >   I grabbed a new SSD  M4-CT064M4SSD2 from Crucial. > I am disappointed.  I stuck the unit in an Atom machine (zotac) with > CentOS 6 on the disk. > It really doesn't "feel" faster than the previous 5400 RPM drive > that was in it. > The SSD is giving me (in the zotac running

Re: [CentOS] new ssd to play with

2011-09-07 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Jerry Geis wrote: > Just wondering... Is there something that has to be done to take > advantage of the SSD performance? I'll note that CentOS 6 and my SSDs haven't (yet) worked and played well together. Debian 6, otoh, screams... I'm semi-sure my CentOS/SSD issues are pil

Re: [CentOS] new ssd to play with

2011-09-07 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: >  I grabbed a new SSD  M4-CT064M4SSD2 from Crucial. > > I am disappointed.  I stuck the unit in an Atom machine (zotac) with > CentOS 6 on the disk. > It really doesn't "feel" faster than the previous 5400 RPM drive that > was in it. > > The SSD i

Re: [CentOS] new ssd to play with

2011-09-07 Thread m . roth
Jerry Geis wrote: > I grabbed a new SSD M4-CT064M4SSD2 from Crucial. > > I am disappointed. I stuck the unit in an Atom machine (zotac) with > CentOS 6 on the disk. > It really doesn't "feel" faster than the previous 5400 RPM drive that > was in it. >

Re: [CentOS] new ssd to play with

2011-09-07 Thread Connie Sieh
On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Jerry Geis wrote: > I grabbed a new SSD M4-CT064M4SSD2 from Crucial. > > I am disappointed. I stuck the unit in an Atom machine (zotac) with > CentOS 6 on the disk. > It really doesn't "feel" faster than the previous 5400 RPM drive that > was in it. > > The SSD is giving me

[CentOS] new ssd to play with

2011-09-07 Thread Jerry Geis
I grabbed a new SSD M4-CT064M4SSD2 from Crucial. I am disappointed. I stuck the unit in an Atom machine (zotac) with CentOS 6 on the disk. It really doesn't "feel" faster than the previous 5400 RPM drive that was in it. The SSD is giving me (in the zotac running centos 6): hdparm -t /dev/sd