[Soekris] Readdressing the "cooling" question....

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <4A60FAD8.902 at bogus.com>, Joel Jaeggli writes:

>That particular transcend card is single level cell flash and apart from
>not being the industrial product is quite fast for something designed in
> 2007.

Good flash has been had since early 1990'ies when M-Systems got their
patents (now in the hands of Sandisk).

>simple tests with bonnie++ favored it vs fujistu 80GB 5400rpm disks
>basically across the board apart from rewrite, back when I was playing
>with them in early 08.

As long as you didn't say "ok, one test it sucks, but never mind that" :-)

*only* random (small) writes is a relevant test of SSDs.

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