Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2017 11:13:19 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hd firecuda Message-ID: <20171217111319.6a1af590@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20171217112428.150d8041.freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> References: <1513447749.62024.1.camel@yandex.com> <20171217112428.150d8041.freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com>
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On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 11:24:28 +0800 Erich Dollansky wrote: > I write this on a machine running FreeBSD 10 with a FireCuda 2TB > drive, but the 2.5" version. The drive works but its behaviour was > not what I expected. > > The SSD part is too small from my point of view. The drive is really > fast when working on a project for which all fits into the 8GB SSD > memory my drive has. It becomes a totally different story when > compiling the kernel or installing large ports My understanding is they weren't intended to work like that. The last I heard was that the SSD was divided into two, one part specifically speeds up booting, and the other part caches sectors where the head had to seek to access a small amount of data.
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