Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Five years later... Intel launches Fusion Drive for Wintel... Date: 30 Apr 2017 04:46:54 GMT Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <2017042619201161432-gavin.lawrie@2gc.eu> <590104a9$0$36059$c3e8da3$76a7c58f@news.astraweb.com> <59022ff3$0$22780$c3e8da3$33881b6a@news.astraweb.com> <0001HW.1EB459B6006286347000046642CF@news.giganews.com> <6ck8gc5v8o957glg1d4hob8f2ian0nhtaq@4ax.com> <290420170930404051%nospam@nospam.invalid> <7g69gch7rio045rnv4pme5dc8291jssj37@4ax.com> <290420171022049098%nospam@nospam.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net xZZZMif4RlX2eDadxZh5RQbwKwy1FGtKajgvx3hRMusXE9VpIw Cancel-Lock: sha1:YLISZjpH/YFC4kV77ee23U4Gxn8= sha1:RCdDdRutaqC6wFmAsm5Qg0RO7Kg= User-Agent: NewsTap/5.2.6 (iPhone/iPod Touch) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:105902 John Albert wrote: > On 4/29/17 6:04 PM, Jolly Roger wrote: >> Same here with multiple Fusion Drives on several machines. Fusion Drives >> give you lots of cheap space with speeds far faster than HD speeds due >> to the SSD. What's not to like? > > Just wonderin'... > Over time, has the general performance of the fusion drives > "held up"? Yep! All of mine are just as fast as the day I created them. If there is a difference it's too small for me to notice. The machines boot and do file operations way faster than they did with hard drives alone. > Do they still benchmark at least modestly close to the > speeds when they were new? Honestly I really don't care about benchmarks when the user experience has not changed. I've got better things to do than babysit my computers. Maybe someone else can answer this question. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR