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Originally Posted by SimmoW

It's on an intel SSD. I do have a rather large graphics card that whirrs up when under strain , a GTX780 OC Ti

Originally Posted by RobF

I've got a GTX 760, but it shouldn't make any difference for PI. Juan said writing code for graphics processors is a long way down the to do list, although there is no a hint they might start supporting CUDA in 2015:
http://www.pixinsight.com/sysreq/index.html
http://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php?topic=4668.0

Sounds right and doesn't explain why Simon's numbers are so high. Also that swap speed of 1586.407 MiB/s is about 2.5 times faster than the 6gb/s that SATA III can handle, isn't it? How is this possible with a single SSD? (I'm not really up on current hardware though so happy to be corrected if there's some fancy new bus tech that I'm ignorant of).

Simon did your test really only take ~27 seconds to run? If so that's amazing!
I'm really curious!