Re: [Hampshire] Advice please: disk bottle neck

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Author: Michael Pavling
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Advice please: disk bottle neck
On 13 March 2013 10:19, Peter Salisbury <peterthevicar@???
> wrote:


> Thank for all your comments. I've tried the CF card SSD and it's no
> better. It gives an hdparm -t figure of about 20M compared with 50M
> for my internal drive so predictably it takes longer to start up, but
> I'd hoped that faster random access might give an overall improvement.
> Sadly it's actually slightly worse even in normal use



Maybe a good cheap quiet boot device for an Openelec media player though?
(assuming the media files are on a server somewhere else in the house...)
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