{"id":1304,"date":"2008-12-02T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/12\/netbooks-solid-state-drives-and-file-systems.htm"},"modified":"2008-12-03T11:39:25","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T11:39:25","slug":"netbooks-solid-state-drives-and-file-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/12\/netbooks-solid-state-drives-and-file-systems.htm","title":{"rendered":"NetBooks, solid state drives and file systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/12\/why-lenovos-s10-seemed-like-a-good-ideapad-to-me.htm\">the new NetBook PC that I&#8217;ve ordered<\/a> (a Lenovo IdeaPad S10).  In that post I mentioned that I had some concerns about running Windows 7 on a PC with a solid state drive (SSD) and I wanted to clarify something: it&#8217;s not that Windows 7 (or any other version of Windows) is inherently bad on SSD, it&#8217;s just that there are considerations to take into account when making sure that you get the most out of a solid state drive.<\/p>\n<p>Reading around various forums it&#8217;s apparent that SSDs vary tremendously in quality and performance. As a consequence, buying a cheap NetBook with a Linux distro on it and upgrading the SSD to a larger device (the Linux models generally ship with lower capacity SSDs than their more expensive Windows XP brethren) is not necessarily straightforward.  Then there&#8217;s the issue of form factor &#8211; not all SSDs use the same size board.<\/p>\n<p>Another commonly reported issue is that NTFS performance on an SSD is terrible and that FAT32 should be used instead.  That rings alarm bells with me because FAT32: does not include any file-level access control lists; has a maximum file size of 4GB (so no good for storing DVD ISOs &#8211; not that you&#8217;ll get many of those on the current generation of SSDs &#8211; anyway, most NetBooks do not ship with an optical drive).<\/p>\n<p>The reason for poor NTFS performance on SSDs may be found in a slide deck from the 2008 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/whdc\/winhec\/\">Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC)<\/a>, where Frank Shu, a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, highlights:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>The alignment of NTFS partition to SSD geometry is important for SSD performance in [Windows]\n<ul>\n<li>The first Windows XP partition starts at sector #63; the\u00c2\u00a0middle of [an] SSD page.<\/li>\n<li>[A] misaligned partition can degrade [the] device\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s performance [&#8230;] to 50% caused by read-modify-write.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It sounds to me as if those who are experiencing poor performance on otherwise good SSDs (whilst SSDs come in a smaller package, are resistant to shocks and vibration, use less power and generate less heat than mechanical hard drives <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.computerworld.com\/solid_state_disk_life_and_performance_varies_wildly\">SSD life and performance varies wildly<\/a>) may have an issue with the partition alignment on their drives. Windows 7 implements some technologies to make best use of SSD technology (read more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;articleId=9119524\">how Windows 7 will, and won&#8217;t, work better with SSDs<\/a> in Eric Lai&#8217;s article on the subject).<\/p>\n<p>In addition, at the 2007 WinHEC, Frank Shu presented three common issues with SSDs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Longer setup time for command execution.<\/li>\n<li>SSD write performance.<\/li>\n<li>Limited write cycles for NAND flash memory (100,000 write cycles for single layer cell devices and 10,000 write cycles for multi layer cell devices).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(He also mentioned cost &#8211; although this is dropping as SSDs become more prevalent in NetBooks and other PC devices aimed at highly-mobile users).<\/p>\n<p>In short, SSD technology is still very new and there are a lot of factors to consider (I&#8217;ve just scraped the surface here). I&#8217;m sure that in the coming years I&#8217;ll be putting SSDs in my PCs but, as things stand at the end of 2008, it&#8217;s a little too soon to make that jump &#8211; even for a geek like me.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, Frank Shu&#8217;s slide decks on <a href=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/a\/f\/d\/afdfd50d-6eb9-425e-84e1-b4085a80e34e\/WNS-T432_WH07.pptx\">Solid State Drives &#8211; Next Generation Storage<\/a> (WinHEC 2007: WNS-T432) and <a href=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/5\/E\/6\/5E66B27B-988B-4F50-AF3A-C2FF1E62180F\/COR-T558_WH08.pptx\">Windows 7 Enhancements for Solid-State Drives<\/a> (WinHEC 2008: COR-T558) are both available on the &#8216;net and worth a look for anyone considering running Windows on a system with an SSD installed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I wrote about the new NetBook PC that I&#8217;ve ordered (a Lenovo IdeaPad S10). 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