> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Orvar Korvar > > So boot is much quicker. > > Everyday use, I dont notice anything. Every application boots quick, and I > dont think about application boot time anymore.
OT but... At work, we wanted to evaluate SSD vs HDD as laptop boot drives. So we bought a batch of identical laptops, some with SSD and others with HDD. Built them with exactly the same OS image. I put a SSD side-by-side with a HDD laptop and did exactly the same things on each one. Result was: The SSD boots 2x faster. After bootup, applications launch 2x faster. After caching, of course, they're both identical. So it goes like this: Whenever somebody upgrades to a faster system, they say "I don't notice anything." But whenever somebody downgrades to a slower system, they complain about the end of the world and junk computers. Here's another OT anecdote: The company supported platform is windows. But my group is largely a bunch of mac users, so everyone gets a win7 VM inside of OSX. When somebody's new and looking at a mac for the first time, they don't really say anything about speed... You sit down with them and perform the exact same tasks inside of windows and inside of osx, and nobody says anything about speed. But then you give them the laptop, and after a week or two they start to notice... You perform some task such as launching firefox or anything else ... repeat in windows and osx... and windows is 2x faster. Inside the VM, that's quite surprising. ;-) This is something I always notice on their new laptops just because I've become hyper sensitive to it... But users don't notice it until they've become accustomed to it after a couple of weeks. Incidentally, these are all 8G laptops, with 3G assigned to windows and 5G assigned to osx. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
