On 04/07/2019 02:54, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 03/07/2019 20:20, druck wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> Since it happens in background, who really cares?

Well I had credited you with more sense than that, so I can only assume
you are being deliberate argumentative - plonk :(

---druck

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