From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Freemyer Subject: Re: ATA 4 KiB sector issues. Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:56:07 -0400 Message-ID: <87f94c371003141956t6115f45bga5ec1e6d76b1ea40@mail.gmail.com> References: <4B947393.2050002@kernel.org> <1158166a1003100114j6ea329fbh84bfad65dcac90bf@mail.gmail.com> <4B9D8BB2.1010507@zytor.com> <201003150326.22262.vda.linux@googlemail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: Received: from mail-gw0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:56702 "EHLO mail-gw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934401Ab0COC4I (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:56:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: <201003150326.22262.vda.linux@googlemail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Denys Vlasenko Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Arnd Bergmann , Tejun Heo , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , lkml , Daniel Taylor , Jeff Garzik , Mark Lord , tytso@mit.edu, hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp, Andrew Morton , Alan Cox , irtiger@gmail.com, Matthew Wilcox , aschnell@suse.de, knikanth@suse.de, jdelvare@suse.de > I just played with ubuntu installation on an usb stick. > Yes, it works. Soft of. Write performance is abysmal. > I would pay x2 or x3 for the same sized stick if it > would perform better. In general USB sticks don't offer the same performance as SSDs. You can find sticks with both USB and eSata. I'd hope those offer better performance. You should read some performance reviews. I'm sure you can find a few sticks that are much better than what you get from a vanilla usb stick. Greg