- Joined
- Jan 9, 2006
@ HayesK & Adak
Wait guys... hold on now. You mean to tell me I bought an SSD for nothing.
I could've sworn before I left, I read threads with people reporting
faster read/write on SSDs - anywhere from 30min - an hr. That was just
an ext. 3 thing? Holy crap! I missed the memo on that one.
Note to self: Read/ask before buying stuff... and do not open the damn box. Just return it.
The popular Ubuntu 11.04 uses the ext4 file system, by default. So along came the bigadv work units, and the 60 minutes plus to write the data, and it seemed like an SSD was a critical speed up, since it did the data write up to the hd, in a flash. That was what you read about, I'm sure.
No one noticed right away, that if they used the same linux distro, and used ext3, that the write data times were just a dozen seconds or so for these wu's. It was unthinkable that ext4 could be so bad.
But it is.
ext3 (or NTFS file system on Windows), is just fine.
It always takes me more than a day, and frequently more than two days, to fold a bigadv work unit. So a 4-12 second delay while the days is written out to the hd in it's final form, seems OK to me.