[mythtv-users] Opinions on Solid State Drives for Myth ???

Christopher Kerr mythtv at theseekerr.com
Fri Jul 30 04:27:53 UTC 2010


On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 7:25 AM, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
> Random writes are the Achilles heel of SSD's.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2968/intel-s-x25-v-kingston-s-30gb-ssdnow-v-series-battle-of-the-125-ssds/6
- I beg to differ. Even a cheap(ish) X25-V thrashes the heck out of
any normal drive in Random Writes - the newer Barefoot and Sandforce
based drives are even better.

Really REALLY cheap SSD's, and CF cards, are likely to be pretty awful
though. See the results for the Kingston in the above test....

I can confirm the results on the X25-V from the 2 I've tested myself.

- Chris


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