Re: [NTLK] benchmark linear flash cards

From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Thu Aug 04 2005 - 13:26:34 PDT

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okto wrote:
> I'm considering buying a linear flash card because I hear rumors that
> they are faster than their ATA CF counterparts.
> Could the owners of linear flash cards run the read/write tests in the
> Card slip for me and report speeds back to me?
> I'd like read butterfly, write butterfly, and read/write random tests, please.

Umm... I think you can only do those tests on ATA Cards from ATA Support?

I don't think anyone has ever noted that different linear cards have noticably
  different speeds. What is known is that as the card fills up, it will get a
bit slower.

Have a look at the graph at the bottom of this page to see some speed
comparisons across linear card types:

http://www.mac3.de/sig/newton/memory_cards.html

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