On 09/07/2011 09:55 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > 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. I'm going to guess, off the top of my head, based on my experience, that your atom cant process the data fast enough and your benchmark isnt really worthwhile. get a copy of iozone setup on the box, and get it to run through a few iterations with the 5400rpm disk and then the SSD. I have an i5 @2.4Ghz per core, and it struggles to keep up with the sata2 interface ( with a Crucial M4 on the other side ). I suspect I can go faster with a sata3 interface.. Some of my initial observations: http://www.karan.org/blog/index.php/2011/08/29/a-few-notes-on-ssds-in-laptops - KB