<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Brian Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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I've never known Linus to push hardware, at least not since the 90s when he recommended the Alpha CPU, and we all know how<br>
that turned out in the end.</blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Alpha was quite good at the time. Too bad they faded into obscurity. They even got Windows support in some versions of NT. </div><div><br></div><div>
As for SSD, I agree with Linus there as well. Intel SSDs are quite good. I'd also run an OCZ Vertex 2. Small random writes kill SSDs, and so the people that make them don't like to publish those numbers. Random reads are super fast, and streaming I/O is fine (as it is with an HDD). But those random writes hurt. TRIM and other tech has helped a LOT, though I'm not 100% sure of support for that in Linux as I haven't run any SSDs in Linux. I'm sure if it helps Linux, it will find it's way into the kernel drivers. </div>
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