[Soekris] Choosing Compact flash (Was: Memory upgrade)

[Steve Holdoway]

On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:40:07 +0100
Bill Maas <bill at stsx.org> wrote:

> Hi Joel,
> 
> On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 14:26 -0800, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> 
> > for the transcend 8GB 266x cf card I got:
> > 
> > 30.3MB/s block write on a 4GB file
> > 37.5MB/s block read on a 4GB file (iozone)
> > 6.9MB/s rewrite
> > 
> > this is on a system with 2.6 linux kernel ext3fs and 512MB of ram.
> > 
> 
> Manufacturers obviously don't plug their cards into Soekris boxes for
> testing and benchmarking, so average speed in the lab (the 45 Mb/s
> claim) is not what the average end user will ever see;). Still not bad,
> the fastest I've seen a "slow" card do after a few local tests is 2.35
> Mb/s.
> 
> However, in my experience, on an operational level it's the other
> hardware that matters on a Soekris box. Switching from a net4521 to a
> net4801, and later to a net5501, really made a difference (key
> generation, SSH login time etc). CF card speed has played only a minor
> role.
> 
> Bill
> 
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Hey Bill,

Please tell me you mean MB, not Mb!

Cheers, Steve

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Steve Holdoway <steve at greengecko.co.nz>