[CentOS] SSD for Centos SWAP /tmp & /var/ partition

Gordon Messmer yinyang at eburg.com
Mon May 23 16:54:04 UTC 2011


On 05/23/2011 07:23 AM, Michael Schumacher wrote:
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> As far as I understand, SSD are fast at reading and slow at writing.

A good SSD will be substantially faster at writes than a disk drive, as 
well.  Because there's no head seeking around a platter, latency is 
vastly better, which provides a massive performance advantage in many 
(if not most) use patterns.



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