Re: solid state drive access and context switching

[Chris Friesen]

Jared Hulbert wrote:

> Magnetic drives have latencies ~10 milliseconds, current SSD's are an
> order of magnitude better (~1 millisecond), new interfaces and
> refinements could theoretically get us down one more (~100
> microsecond).

They've already done already better than that.  Here's a solid state 
drive with a claimed 20 microsecond access time:

http://www.curtisssd.com/products/drives/hyperxclr

Chris
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