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The Crucial 512GB SSD is not that expensive and I found some notes on partitioning SSD on Gentoo: |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SSD |
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It seems to me I'll only have boot, swap and root partition; home I think will be mounted on root partition. |
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Joseph |
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On 08/29/14 07:49, Daniel Frey wrote: |
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>On 08/28/2014 09:54 PM, Joseph wrote: |
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>> No, I wouldn't get 1TB SSD too expensive but something like 300GB I |
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>> might consider it. |
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>> Are they worth the investment? What brand do you have and how long? |
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>I have several SSDs. I currently use Kingston, Crucial, and Intel. |
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>A bit of background - I use a mythtv setup with multiple frontends. I |
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>had a SSD in the backend but it failed after about two years with no |
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>warning -- one day I noticed the frontends behaving strangely and found |
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>out I couldn't log into the backend (via ssh or directly.) The server |
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>sustained a lot of writes to the database daily, however, the actual |
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>recordings were on rust disks. |
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>It was a Kingston that failed, a 32GB model. |
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>The Crucial and Intel I have are still relatively new, the Crucial being |
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>a year and a bit old, and the Intel only a few days old. :-) |
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>Speedwise, there's no comparison. Especially running emerge/compiling - |
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>my frontend (equipped with an E8400 and 2GB RAM) with the Kingston SSD |
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>beats my main workstation equipped with a rust raid10 (a QX9650 with 8 |
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>GB RAM) every time. |
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>I have two recommendations for a new SSD user - 1) Flash the firmware to |
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>a new version right away if available, and 2) Don't partition the entire |
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>SSD if you can avoid it. Apparently SSDs will use unused space for wear |
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>leveling - as an example I believe I only partitioned 20GB (out of a |
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>64GB SSD) on my frontends. That's a bit excessive and you may not be |
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>able to do that, but you get the idea. |
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>Also make sure to use parted to partition so the partitions themselves |
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>are aligned properly. |
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>(Regarding the firmware update - my Crucial had one and I ignored it. |
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>About 3 months later my laptop was acting weird and complaining about |
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>the disk. I was lucky - I flashed the firmware and it was fine with no |
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>data loss. Others are not so lucky...) |
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>Dan |
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