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Daedalus · 10 November 2021, 11:59

Yeah, I've just run some rough tests there and there's far less difference with a CF card than a mechanical drive. When I went from 512 to 8192 (or was it 16384? I can't remember...), it made a massive difference in everyday use, but especially when dealing with large files like archives, virtual hard drives etc., and it made a big difference to the speed of my browser cache back then too.

The test I just did was for writing large files - copying a 40MB file from RAM to an 8k block size partition was about 7 seconds faster than copying the same file to a 512 byte block size partition - around 15% faster, but not nearly as dramatic a difference as I got back in the day.

10 November 2021, 11:59	#481
Daedalus Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Dublin, then Glasgow Posts: 6,369	Yeah, I've just run some rough tests there and there's far less difference with a CF card than a mechanical drive. When I went from 512 to 8192 (or was it 16384? I can't remember...), it made a massive difference in everyday use, but especially when dealing with large files like archives, virtual hard drives etc., and it made a big difference to the speed of my browser cache back then too. The test I just did was for writing large files - copying a 40MB file from RAM to an 8k block size partition was about 7 seconds faster than copying the same file to a 512 byte block size partition - around 15% faster, but not nearly as dramatic a difference as I got back in the day.