Reply to: SSD drives slower than hard disk drives

[Churchill]

VMS had a nice feature in shared global sections. These used the system paging mechanism which was lightening fast compared to using the normal file system.

And they were persistent across reboots if you wanted them to be.

Kids today, eh? They don't know they're born!

[Sysman]

Ramdrives are still useful, modern solaris puts /tmp in ram by default. They generally aren't persistent though.

VMS had a nice feature in shared global sections. These used the system paging mechanism which was lightening fast compared to using the normal file system.

And they were persistent across reboots if you wanted them to be.

[Churchill]

Ramdrives are still useful, modern solaris puts /tmp in ram by default. They generally aren't persistent though.

Keep the thing switched on!

[Sysman]

Dual U320 controllers with 15k disks, nowt better than the machine-gun rattle of a loaded SCSI disk and the OS just not noticing.....

Fond memories.

This SATA crap sits here with the red light on almost permanently and slowing everything else down.

Grrrr.....

[doodab]

Didn't you ever have "ramdrive.sys" installed on your old DOS PCs?

Turbo Pascal used to fly!
(Mind you it was fast anyway)

Oh and did you know that there was still some of Philipe Kahn's original assembler code in the Delphi compiler?

[michael caine]Not a lot of people know that[/michael caine]

Ramdrives are still useful, modern solaris puts /tmp in ram by default. They generally aren't persistent though.

[DaveB]

The search facility is just fine. It is you that are the problem. You couldn't find the gonads on a Bull!!!

Bollocks, the search facility works just fine for the non-morons within the congregation.

Try searching for SSD then. Also, every search facility THAT I HAVE WRITTEN in various projects over the years provides the user with the capability to search for a phrase by allowing the user to place the search term in quotation marks.

In fairness to Pacharan, the site search funtion is a bit pants really.

In fairness to everyone else, Pacharan is still a bit of a twunt really.

[Churchill]

Nobody mentioned lappies!!

It looks like solid state was kicking butts even then.

Cray X-MP - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Didn't you ever have "ramdrive.sys" installed on your old DOS PCs?

Turbo Pascal used to fly!
(Mind you it was fast anyway)

Oh and did you know that there was still some of Philipe Kahn's original assembler code in the Delphi compiler?

[michael caine]Not a lot of people know that[/michael caine]

[doodab]

Well its model name is "X-MP" so that should give you a clue.

The DD-39 and DD-49 hard drives each stored 1.2 GB with 5.9 MB/s and 9.8 MB/s transfer rates, respectively. Optional solid state drives were available with 256, 512 or 1024 MB capacities with transfer rates of 100 to 1,000 MB/s per channel.[1]

It looks like solid state was kicking butts even then.

Cray X-MP - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[doodab]

Nobody mentioned lappies!!

SSD laptop drives ‘slower than hard disks

Just saying like.

[Churchill]

How heavy is your laptop exactly?

Well its model name is "X-MP" so that should give you a clue.

[stek]

How heavy is your laptop exactly?

Nobody mentioned lappies!!

[doodab]

Dual U320 controllers with 15k disks, nowt better than the machine-gun rattle of a loaded SCSI disk and the OS just not noticing.....

How heavy is your laptop exactly?

[stek]

Dual U320 controllers with 15k disks, nowt better than the machine-gun rattle of a loaded SCSI disk and the OS just not noticing.....

[Churchill]

ExtremeFFS FFS! Sounds like a marketing article by Sandisk. And 2 years late as well.

Get with the program Soldier!

[Scrag Meister]

ExtremeFFS FFS! Sounds like a marketing article by Sandisk. And 2 years late as well.