Comment by userbinator
10 years ago
I wonder how much effect it'd have on an SSD. Those tend to have much higher random read and effective seek times far below 1ms.
10 years ago
I wonder how much effect it'd have on an SSD. Those tend to have much higher random read and effective seek times far below 1ms.
You might assume that it would have no effect, but an SSD reads data in a block. If the size of each fragment is smaller than a block then it will definitely slow it down.
But it depends on how large a block is on the SSD.
I think SSDs call them pages. Some brief googling seems to indicate that 16KB is a common page size, so if the cluster size is also 16KB it's probably not too bad.