On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Jerry Geis wrote: > I grabbed a new SSD M4-CT064M4SSD2 from Crucial. > > I am disappointed. I stuck the unit in an Atom machine (zotac) with > CentOS 6 on the disk. > It really doesn't "feel" faster than the previous 5400 RPM drive that > was in it. > > The SSD is giving me (in the zotac running centos 6): > hdparm -t /dev/sda > /dev/sda: > Timing buffered disk reads: 298 MB in 3.00 seconds = 99.30 MB/sec > > The Samsung 5400 RPM disk (in the zotac running Centos 6): > hdparm -t /dev/sda > /dev/sda: > Timing buffered disk reads: 196 MB in 3.01 seconds = 65.02 MB/sec > > I'm not supper impressed at all. Sure the numbers say its "slightly" > better but I don't "feel" it. > I was expecting like really noticeable change in application load time or > something - but not really. > > Just wondering... Is there something that has to be done to take > advantage of the SSD performance? You need to verify that "AHCI" is enabled for the sata interface. -Connie Sieh > > Thanks, > > jerry > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >