16 Aug 2012 19:55
Re: du -s src is a lot slower on SSD than spinning disk in the same laptop
Marc MERLIN <marc <at> merlins.org>
2012-08-16 17:55:40 GMT
2012-08-16 17:55:40 GMT
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:51:30AM +0200, Spelic wrote: > On 08/16/12 09:50, Marc MERLIN wrote: > >On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:30:42PM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote: > >>How can ntfs via fuse be the fastest? > >To provide closure to this thread. > > > >I owed everyone an update, which I just finished typing: > >http://marc.merlins.org/perso/linux/post_2012-08-15_The-tale-of-SSDs_-Crucial-C300-early-Death_-Samsung-830-extreme-random-IO-slowness_-and-settling-with-OCZ-Vertex-4.html > > Hello, > reading your article a few ideas came to my mind. > > Firstly, for the Crucial, I haven't read much about that bug, but would > leaving the last 20% of the drive free (make an empty partition there > and then fstrim it and leave it empty) help with that bug? Maybe the > garbage collection algorithm hasn't got enough free blocks to shuffle > data around. I am interested because Crucial would be my prime choice > for what I read around. When it resuscitated did you try to TRIM it > wholly to try regain performances? I don't know if you still have it around. The drive was still mostly dead, it didn't work long enough for me to try to reformat it. I RMA'ed it and haven't used the replacement yet because I don't have data I don't care about enough :) > Secondly, for the Samsung 830: > The random access slowness is reproducible also without dm-crypt it > seems to me. This benchmark of yours was NOT on dm-crypt, correct? > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg18238.html Correct.(Continue reading)
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