With our hosting company, we are playing with performance factors for FoxInCloud;
We chose one step of the FoxinCloud process as a reference benchmark.

Here is what we found (in sec.):

HDD:

min: 0,047
avg: 0,107
max: 0,462

SSD:

min: 0,078
avg: 0,096 && 10% less
max: 0,125 && 75% less

SSD makes response times faster (in avg) and more stable (less variation).

Our idea is: integrate this information in the FoxInCloud Web Application Dashboard (also see attached SS)

>I see there's been a lot of effort to get this information. But, I have to wonder how useful it is - can you let us know what you're trying to do?
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>- It's only useful on real hardware, it's useless in a VM. VFP running on real hardware is becoming less common these days
>- Real hardware has undergone huge changes in the last 1 to 2 years. As just one example, on small systems you can see 2 types of hybrid drives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_drive . Some of them are designed to be transparent to OSs and even motherboard SATA controllers. I'm not sure in practice if they would be reported as fast mechanical drives or slow SSDs
>- Enterprise storage has been converging extremely rapidly in the last year, there are new bus and device types not present in your MSDN link. As that technology trickles down you'll start seeing it in packages as small as single servers