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Wanted to elaborate on what I was saying.
Here is a Crystal bench against my 2TB XT and my Voyager GT (left and right respectively).
Those are sequential, and actual sustained is more like read 80-90MB/s on the HDD and 120-150MB/s on the flash drive. The thing here to take note, is the smaller 4k and 512k read speeds on the flash drive which are MUCH faster than the HDD. Anything that will be paged will be small making the flash drive the clear winner. Yet, only problem is fast USB3 drives are pricey still and you can't page to them.
Edit:
Adding my SSD and RAMDisk to the mix too. This is why you keep everything in RAM and why it's better to just get more RAM. SSD left, RAMdisk right at 1600.
Here is a Crystal bench against my 2TB XT and my Voyager GT (left and right respectively).
Those are sequential, and actual sustained is more like read 80-90MB/s on the HDD and 120-150MB/s on the flash drive. The thing here to take note, is the smaller 4k and 512k read speeds on the flash drive which are MUCH faster than the HDD. Anything that will be paged will be small making the flash drive the clear winner. Yet, only problem is fast USB3 drives are pricey still and you can't page to them.
Edit:
Adding my SSD and RAMDisk to the mix too. This is why you keep everything in RAM and why it's better to just get more RAM. SSD left, RAMdisk right at 1600.
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