[ltp] Re: solid state drive?

[Richard Neill]

Laurent wrote:

> 
> For the current generation it's a matter of erasing the blocks fast
> enough. Most SSD are fast as long as the blocks written by the OS
> are as big or bigger as the native block size. Ext3 journal is messy
> and syncs lot lots of small blocks. That make the disc a lot slower
> if you use lots of smalls files (like my email client or my dev-app).
> 

Does write performance really matter though? I'd have thought that it 
should be OK to live with background writes - as long as we have enough 
RAM. Linux has been doing this for ages - try saving a file to floppy, 
and you'll notice that the application thinks the file has been saved 
before the floppy disk has finished writing.

Richard