Re: solid state drive access and context switching
From: Chris Friesen
Date: Tue Dec 04 2007 - 15:46:47 EST
Jared Hulbert wrote:
Magnetic drives have latencies ~10 milliseconds, current SSD's are an
order of magnitude better (~1 millisecond), new interfaces and
refinements could theoretically get us down one more (~100
microsecond).
They've already done already better than that. Here's a solid state
drive with a claimed 20 microsecond access time:
http://www.curtisssd.com/products/drives/hyperxclr
Chris
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