On 03/07/2019 09:25, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> I only need about 40GB for my SSD to boot from. And store its programs.
> 
> Data?  All on a networked server running big spinning rust. The switch 
> is only 100Mbps so whats the pont of making that disk SSD?

For the Pi, its not the headline large sequential read and write speed 
that's important, but the 4K random access reads and writes. Theses are 
vastly faster on an SSD than a hard disk, even with a USB2 interface, 
and make a lot of difference when used as a boot disk.

Running a big apt update, which does a lot of disc reads and writes, can
be 3x to 5x faster with an SSD.

> Anyway its well fast enough.

You can never have to much fast!

---druck

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