{"id":4081,"date":"2012-02-14T10:30:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T15:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=4081"},"modified":"2012-02-14T10:30:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T15:30:15","slug":"crucial-m4-ssd-for-data-processing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2012\/02\/14\/crucial-m4-ssd-for-data-processing\/","title":{"rendered":"Crucial m4 SSD for Data Processing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/IMG_6743.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/100502-2\/IMG_6743.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0 title=\"64GB Crucial m4 SSD in a Nimitz-branded second hard drive caddy for HP laptop optical drive bays. This will be used at work to facilitate faster data processing.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been processing some relatively large sets of data at work lately, and I&#8217;m running into disk IO issues after kicking off some of the data processing tasks. As an easy way to alleviate this I picked up a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crucial.com\/store\/partspecs.aspx?IMODULE=CT064M4SSD2\">64GB Crucial m4 SSD<\/a> and stuffed it into my laptop&#8217;s optical drive bay via a $20 Nimitz-branded SATA hard drive adapter acquired from eBay. The drive itself was $99.99 from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microcenter.com\">Micro Center<\/a>, and since I purchased it myself once I&#8217;m done working with it I&#8217;ll be able to repurpose it in a personal machine of some sort.<\/p>\n<p>While not a panacea nor excuse for my poor habits of bolting together <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/VBScript\">VBScript<\/a> and GNU command line utilities, it has helped quite a bit. One typical script (immediately post-reboot, with an empty disk cache) takes ~120.234 seconds to run a task from the hard drive and ~28.400 seconds from the SSD. I&#8217;ve seen similar speed improvements across the board, and this really helps when I&#8217;m prototyping things and wanting feedback as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been processing some relatively large sets of data at work lately, and I&#8217;m running into disk IO issues after kicking off some of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2012\/02\/14\/crucial-m4-ssd-for-data-processing\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crucial m4 SSD for Data Processing<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-computers","category-work","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4082,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081\/revisions\/4082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}