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Corsair USB 3.0 16GB CMFVYGT3-16GB speed test

20-Jan-12

Looks basically like that other Corsair I bought a month ago. I basically bought another one so I can set up my FreeBSD root as a mirror of two 16 GB USB drives that are relatively fast for USB (even in a USB 2.0 port). This is in a USB 3.0 port: ———————————————————————– CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 [...]

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Flash disk cost and performance (USB, SSD, SDHC)

08-Jan-11

I’ve been reading up on using a USB flash drive as an L2ARC for ZFS. Some reason that since the bandwidth of USB is much lower than SATA. However, others reason that since the USB flash drive has no seek time, it will speed up non-sequential reads, which is what the L2ARC is there for. [...]

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