Is anyone planning or tried to run K2 SQL Server on Intel X-25E SSD?
I bought an SSD drive to run some of my VPC's on.
Here is what I bought
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3956991&CatId=2503
So I wanted to test out how much faster SSD really is...
so I copied over my 1.6Training VPC and started timing it on the SSD drive and on a regular SATA 7200RPM drive. Here is what I found
Task | Time with 7200 | Time with SSD |
Boot up | 2:40 | 2:12 |
Logging in with Warm up | 4:00 | 3:06 |
Launching VS | :34 | :30 |
Opening IE with Workspace and Portal | :16 | :05 |
Switching to MGT view in WS | :05 | :03 |
I also ran some bench marks. I got some really good throughput numbers 74.6MB/s Write and 88.9MB/s Read for the SSD drive as compared to 48.1 and 48.4MB/s respectively. I tried a few different configurations with a external SATA-USB conversion case, but did not get the same speed as I got by just putting the drive in my PC and running it off the onboard SATA controller. But If your laptop has SATA, I would recommend investigating using a drive bay and putting something like this in that. I have a drive bay in my T61 which I have a 7200RPM drive instead of a DVD drive. Just by using this as a dedicated drive for my VPC’s I have noticed better performance as it does not have to compete with the OS and page file etc. Plus its 7200RPM as opposed to the 5400RPM base drive.
X-25M MLC performs well in read.
X-25E SLC performs the best (read/write). (250mb/s read, 170mb/s write)
How much memory did you allocate to the VPC?
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