Re: SATA-performance: Linux vs. FreeBSD

Jörn Engel
2007-02-13T12:08:33Z

On Tue, 13 February 2007 11:29:18 +0100, Martin A. Fink wrote:
>
> Please Read Carefully! I talk about flash disk, not normal harddisks. There
> are no mechanical parts in flash disks, only flash memory. And therefore
> 48MB/s is excellent (compared to all other available disks)
>
> [...]
>
> Well. The testdrive has 27GB. The final drive will have 225 GB. And there will
> be 3 cameras and thus 3 disks. This means we talk about 140 MB/s for around
> 90 minutes.

Do you have any numbers on the performance for the final drive? Single
flash chips are relatively slow, the high bandwidth is usually achieved
by writing in parallel to several of them. With the bigger drive you
get more chips and the manufacturer could run more of them in parallel.

Jörn

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