On Wed, 1 Jun 2016, Pete Turnbull wrote:
Not so slow that it's awful on an Indy (apart
maybe from booting), but
noticeably slower than people expect on faster machines. The ACARD ones
seem to be faster. Perhaps it won't matter for older machines.
The Acard device is @250 bucks. It appears that the SCSI2SD is $50-$100
depending who who is selling. I can tell you that the ACARD device is much
faster than the Seagate Barracuda drive I was using before in my R5k Indy.
I did a test using several benchmarks. There wasn't a single metric which
was better on the old drive. The biggest change was in latency. It made a
serious difference using the machine as a desktop. It also worked
outstandingly well as a video capture destination - no dropped frames. I
use a 2.5" 128G Samsung 850 Pro SATA disk internally inside the 3.5"
device.
-Swift