[CentOS] new ssd to play with

Thu Sep 8 13:05:48 UTC 2011
John Doe <jdmls at yahoo.com>

From: Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com>

>   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

Intel 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 6 port SATA AHCI Controller
64GB Crucial 2.5" RealSSD C300 rev 7 (udma5)

# hdparm -t /dev/sda
 Timing buffered disk reads:  636 MB in  3.01 seconds = 211.58 MB/sec
# hdparm -T /dev/sda
 Timing cached reads:   18016 MB in  2.00 seconds = 9023.48 MB/sec

JD