Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions?
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoYet HDDs were also much slower than SSDs
Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions?
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoYet HDDs were also much slower than SSDs
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 4 weeks ago
Not really in terms of reading a massive amount of tiny files.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Of course SSDs are still much faster reading massive amounts of tiny files than HDDs are. Obviously random read speeds are much, much better, but even sequential reads of tiny files are a lot faster.
If you disagree, please provide numbers or references.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 4 weeks ago
I love the “you’re wrong and if you disagree provide sources” while not providing any sources yourself lol. Amazing.
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This is like asking for a source for common sense statements.
HDDs are pretty terrible at random IO, which is what reading many small files tends to be. This is because they have a literal mechanical arm with a tiny magnet on the end that needs to move around to read sectors on a spinning platter. The physical limitations of how quickly the read right head can traverse limits it’s random I/O capabilities.
This makes hard drives, abysmal, at random I/O. And why defragmenting is a thing.
This is common knowledge for anyone in it and easy knowledge to obtain by reading a Wikipedia page.
SSDs are great at random I/O. They do not have physical components that need to move in order to read from random locations they generally perform equally as well from reading any location. Meaning their random I/O capabilities are significantly better.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s fairly common knowledge that SSDs outperform HDDs in both sequential and random reads, and while the file size & number of files have an impact, it doesn’t negate this difference.
A quick search confirmed that SSDs perform better in your scenario than HDDs. I don’t care enough to spend time finding proper references, because again - this is simply common knowledge.