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I have lenovo t420 and recently added in an internal SSD.

When i benchmark the SSD, it appears significantly faster in VB. Is there any reason as to why?

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Yes, it's because time in a VM is shared with the host. Lots of things are actually done by the host and from the guest POV will appear to take 0 time.

Moral: don't run automatically timed benchmarks inside a VM. Use a stopwatch.

thanks lad

I was into linux when a teenager at high school. Then ended up away from linux and computer science for 2 decades. And now ive been trying to get back into things. So I was not aware of this. Thanks for explaining mate.