Re: download rate to slow tith 1000BaseT

[Lloyd Parkes <lloyd%must-have-coffee.gen.nz@localhost>]

On 28/02/2013, at 2:33 AM, Philip Miller <sighoya%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

> On 26.02.2013 20:28, Lars Schotte wrote:
>> /dev/zero > samplefile
> On the hdd raid:
> ...
> 
> On ssd:
> ...

Be careful, some SSD controllers will compress the data being stored (making it 
faster) and some may even optimise the writing of blocks of zero. I would dd 
from /dev/urandom to an SSD while running top to make sure that the CPU was 
coping with having to generate all those pseudo-random numbers. Your numbers 
are probably correct, but SSDs are an immature technology and their performance 
figures vary widely.

Cheers,
Lloyd