[fedora-arm] Opinions on flash or network drives for development work

[DJ Delorie]

> > The fastest disk I/O on trimslice, based on my testing, is via iSCSI
> > over the ethernet port.  It can do gigE (125MByte/sec) where usb/sata
> > on arm seems to be limited to 27 MByte/sec or so (37 MByte/sec on
> > intel i7).
> 
> Are you really MB/s rather than IOPS bound?

37 MBytes/sec is close to the USB480 limit, considering overhead, I
think.  I don't know why the arm devices seem to be limited to 27
MBytes/sec on USB disks, but those were the numbers I saw.