From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sander Subject: Re: Phoronix article slaming BTRFS Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:20:09 +0200 Message-ID: <20090624082009.GA16357@cumulus> References: <20090623144123.GB19276@think> <20090623181935.2b01c17d.skraw@ithnet.com> Reply-To: sander@humilis.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org To: Mike Ramsey Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-ID: Mike Ramsey wrote (ao): > Depends on who you talk to. > > http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ocz-ssd-vertex-intel-solid-state,7127.html > > "OCZ Says Its New Vertex SSD Beats Intel's X25-E" > > I am not taking sides. I am just saying that the SSD market is fluid. Read and write speeds specs mean (almost) nothing when it comes to SSD. The true performance is shown in heavy long-running benchmarks. OCZ has a long history of very bad performing SSD products. The Intel SSD did set the standard since it came on the market (hence the reason OCZ mentions the X25-E). Btw, not only benchmarks show paper specs mean (almost) nothing: check the OCZ forums and google on real life usage performance problems (stutters mostly) under normal to low load. Especially small writes kill OCZ SSD performance, although their products have improved with the last releases. With kind regards, Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net