Can I speed up Squid puting caching/logs on a flash drive?

[rpifan]

Ive got IPFire running on a RPi B+ and I wondered if it would be worth moving the Squid cache and logs over to a fast USB drive? I've currently got a class 4 SD card so wondered if using an 8 or 10 would also help.

 

[Cloud200]

Only the writes would increase, the reads are mostly CPU limited for you

 

[System Error Message]

in a user heavy environment a hard drive would be faster than a flash drive because of throughput. For logs putting it on a seperate drive other than the cache would make it a bit faster.

 

[Ronv42]

On my device I write the squid logs /tmp/logs which is RAM based. I then used logrotate every hour to copy of them off to a flash drive. This seems to work well.