[mythtvnz] Power to Show Desktop Time - SSD vs CF

[criggie at criggie.dyndns.org]

Tortise wrote:
> Using a 3.16G C2D CPU on the same model Gigabyte motherboards (GA-EP41-UD3L) with 2G RAM from power button on to see the desktop 
> takes about:
> 
> SATA: Kingston SSDNow V-Series 64GB 2.5" SSD  ("up to 100MB/sec read, 80MB/sec write") ~ 34 seconds
> 
> IDE: Kingston 8GB CF CompactFlash 133X Elite Pro ("25MB/sec. read, 20MB/sec. write") ~ 41 seconds
> 
> This is using mythbuntu 9.10 / JYA frontends.  Error estimate at a guess allow say +/- 2 seconds.
> 
> The CF does pretty well considering its ~25% the price?  (Ask me about its longevity in a couple of years...) 

I'd be interested to see the difference after a few months of usage.

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