Short Stroking to Improve I/O Performance : A How To Guide....

[Harbourmaster]

Accelerate Your Hard Drive By Short Stroking:

Tom's wrote:
On The Stroke Of Performance: Hard Drive Short Stroking

Flash SSDs dominate the news at present. If you believe the coverage from multiple Internet tech magazines, flash-based devices are about to take over the storage market. They’re perceived as being faster and more efficient than hard drives—and maybe a bit more expensive. The truth is different, though; flash memory still has only a tiny market share for many reasons. The good old hard drive isn’t dead, and we just found another reason for them to live on for a while: short stroking technology.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/shor...,2157.html

[Carnos Jax]

Go on, someone say it...

[BigGuynRusty]

Carnos Jax wrote:
Go on, someone say it...

CJ, you're the only one.

BGnR

[Anthony]

Biting... tongue...

[GGD]

So that's what the kids are calling it these days.

[kj4btkljv]

You totally needed to summarize that article some more. That was 10 pages of almost nothing that I could recognize after a quick skim.

Jeff

[Fred_Also]

I always consider short stroking as the point of no return.




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Or in other words one we start switching to flash there will be no stopping it.

Fred Also

[Yoyodyne ArtWorks]

Enterprise IT departments have been short-stroking 10K drives for years to get better performance; it's a cheap way to boost throughput without going to 15K drives.

[JoeM]

Carnos Jax wrote:
Go on, someone say it...

I'm thinking it...but I can't say it.

[Racer X]

its not about burst speed, its continuous output.