Posted 07/23/2008 at 12:35:19pm

I recently ran a comparison of linux ext3 and linux logfs (http://www.logfs.org - a filesystem optimized for flash and SSD drives) on my EEE 901. In the Phoronix Test Suite's (http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/) disk benchmark I got about a 10% increase in scores. Also, the database test had an increase of 3% or so.

I wonder how NTFS compares to ext2 on a ssd drive. Ntfs is probably slower since it has more writes than ext3. Vista can't use the simpler FAT32, which has less writes than NTFS since it has less data. Also, Vista defrags and indexes in the background, which is really bad since fragmentation is not a major problem with SSD since they have random acess.