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