i.came.to.get.down

Yes they are faster. Yes I can “feel” a difference. To be frank, things were stupid fast before, now it’s just ridiculous.

claire:~# echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches ;time dd of=/dev/null if=/var/lib/mysql/ibdata1 count=2000 bs=512k
2000+0 records in
2000+0 records out
1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 2.05422 s, 510 MB/s

real    0m2.063s
user    0m0.001s
sys     0m0.376s

Real Benchmarks: http://global.phoronix-test-suite.com/index.php?k=profile&u=msch-29322-25051-20258