From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F8CE138010 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 19:34:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 69C41E072D; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 19:34:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f53.google.com (mail-lpp01m010-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7835CE07F8 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 19:30:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lahc1 with SMTP id c1so680774lah.40 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:30:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=vZP71HiGM/5ML5Oq0WvCSAJr3nDdSp1TLV81R1fcaAc=; b=f7i5TxcGowNDNCRWv0wyywKgGRklOGl3OcrAi4R+ZLL01TYFOlUHu68PwTG1vILYZj CWv3/+cisPchw0JpZhXXe1u+u8zeMpZfo0EmDXiRLLOI4z08uBvuGbhEu47UTV/H9fkp uOr8zjj2ydC/G+vs573zaWmPScNLMGZCpAUoojdCaVd6ruUjbxyAYQFU/J+0YUSIq6Bz wmiffwcD1AnSC44r0a2eWzCrcI376cTh//kuUMfam98+RSpZgDKPfnOncSVU+/5pUNGy 3jVYv2ezPJqqkkIwaLrDisLcWXRi7CL7Wnawj5XbFtGNgsYKc2O/G8KDP5sig9gQt5cO LH5Q== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.112.26.99 with SMTP id k3mr779433lbg.9.1345750250286; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:30:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.112.41.197 with HTTP; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:30:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120823202245.4678e3c1@hactar.digimed.co.uk> References: <20120823202245.4678e3c1@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:30:49 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 7146e367-5230-4256-b8ce-a18d9f420b38 X-Archives-Hash: 1dffa093af6c8f448908f50972742420 On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:57:25 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> This limitation is likely just a byproduct of using a 1 lane >> controller. If one was willing to spend a (fairly large) bit more one >> could get a 16 lane SATA3 controller and would likely do much better >> in terms of throughput... > > If you want real performance from SSD, you ditch SATA altogether and use > a drive on a dedicated card. Of course, you're talking real money now. Um. I'm pretty sure he's already getting 'real' performance from that SSD, even a "mere" 200MB/s runs circles around my best set of platters at home. -- :wq