Hard Drive Types?

[oz]

Yeah, I'm thinking they will be able to do quite a bit with simple firmware upgrades, and it shouldn't take long for them to make huge strides in the technology.

In the interim, I've removed my SSD and gone back to a mechanical drive.

[Rubberman]

Yeah, I'm thinking they will be able to do quite a bit with simple firmware upgrades, and it shouldn't take long for them to make huge strides in the technology.

In the interim, I've removed my SSD and gone back to a mechanical drive.

Yeah. Linux does a pretty good job with disc caching. Raw seek time is still problematic, unless you want to pay out the nose for a really fast HD. Current 7200rpm drives w/ 16-32MB internal cache aren't too shabby, and combined with caching in the OS, subsequent access to recently seen sectors is virtually instantaneous. The find command shows this pretty clearly. My biggest gripe currently with Linux and disc access is the slowdown (stoppage) of UI applications when something is writing a lot of data quickly to disc, such as when copying/moving files from one disc to another, or writing big files to disc, like when I'm generating an ISO file from a video image. The term "io-bound" comes to mind, but the system should be able to know that I want to give precedence to my "user experience" over raw disc speed.