From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: solid state drive access and context switching
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:46:15 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4755BC97.7050607@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6934efce0712040954v74cf0b4bk19b49988bc828233@mail.gmail.com>
Jared Hulbert wrote:
> Magnetic drives have latencies ~10 milliseconds, current SSD's are an
> order of magnitude better (~1 millisecond), new interfaces and
> refinements could theoretically get us down one more (~100
> microsecond).
They've already done already better than that. Here's a solid state
drive with a claimed 20 microsecond access time:
http://www.curtisssd.com/products/drives/hyperxclr
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-04 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-03 23:06 solid state drive access and context switching Chris Friesen
2007-12-03 23:06 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-04 17:54 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-12-04 20:35 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-04 21:54 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-12-04 22:45 ` Jörn Engel
2007-12-05 0:03 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-12-04 23:24 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-05 0:08 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-12-05 0:24 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-05 22:01 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-12-06 3:51 ` Kyungmin Park
2007-12-04 20:46 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2007-12-04 21:38 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-12-04 20:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-12-04 21:02 ` Alan Cox
[not found] <fa.4uUCLsuQFjc4FtQYCBYK6kY9TiU@ifi.uio.no>
2007-12-05 1:11 ` Robert Hancock
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