Raspberry Pi benchmarks

[kurtmckee]

I had a bit of time today and decided to start using the Raspberry Pi I bought last year. I'm very interested in wringing performance out of it, so to the best of my ability I'm going to measure performance.

I had previously downloaded Arch Linux, so I put that on an SD card. Then I saw a blog post suggesting that a USB drive could increase the

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[ext_964981]

What are you working with there... Numbers?

I find it odd that the write times were so much slower than the read times, I figured those would be closer to equal on a USB "SSD-like" drive. But I suppose it does actually make sense, those bits are not going to flip themselves!

Rasp-pi has USB 2.0, right? I wonder if the underlying hardware would be able to take advantage if it was upgraded to 3.0.

[kurtmckee]

I think the rpi has USB 2.0, yes, though I'd have to check the hardware specs. I'm not too worried about the differences, though -- my biggest concern is the possibility that I might suffer data corruption due to a possibly-decreased write count with SD cards!