SSD, hybrid or Velociraptor?

[Jay Vaughan]

On Feb 8, 2012, at 11:56 AM, Joost Schuttelaar wrote:
> Can you run XBench on it? Curious!

Finally got around to doing this:

Results	83.92	
	System Info		
		Xbench Version		1.3
		System Version		10.7.2 (11C74)
		Physical RAM		4096 MB
		Model		MacBookPro3,1
		Drive Type		Wintec ExpressCard 48GB
	Disk Test	83.92	
		Sequential	108.73	
			Uncached Write	131.88	80.97 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	116.17	65.73 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	60.46	17.69 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	246.37	123.82 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Random	68.33	
			Uncached Write	20.48	2.17 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	139.93	44.80 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	1258.59	8.92 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	567.77	105.35 MB/sec [256K blocks]



Not too shabby - not the best performance I've seen from an SSD - but definitely not too bad.  And you can't beat being able to take it out of the Macbook and put it somewhere, the ability to boot an OS from it, and so on .. 

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Jay Vaughan