From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: Questions about 4k sector drives Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 13:13:28 -0400 Message-ID: <4BE83EB8.5060004@tmr.com> References: <4BD42B57.9000703@kusche.de> <1272206601.7734.4.camel@faldara> <4BDE0512.8070502@tmr.com> <4BDED1F2.102@cfl.rr.com> <4BE0201A.6080101@cfl.rr.com> <4BE121F0.7000408@anonymous.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Mikael Abrahamsson Cc: John Robinson , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Wed, 5 May 2010, John Robinson wrote: > >> You can? Which one(s)? Would they be good for putting md bitmaps and >> filesystem journals on? > > Yes. The Intel X25-V 40G drive is the one I would recommend, I use it > as a system drive in one box, it's not as fast (linear write speed) as > the X25-M drives, but it's definitely a step up from the 5400rpm 2.5" > drive I used in the system before :P > 2nd that, nice drive, cheap, many uses for it. In addition to bitmap and journal (pick the right journal options and see a huge boost), putting swap out there make hibernate one of those "wanna see it again" operations. I really want to use it for write cache, but I guess putting a big journal there has a similar effect. -- Bill Davidsen "We can't solve today's problems by using the same thinking we used in creating them." - Einstein