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An SSD has the best performance return per dollar than most any other |
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investment you can make (for a typical workload). It's actually rather |
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unlikely you'll get a bad one if you stick to relatively known brands. |
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ADATA has some cheap options that, while pretty low on the totem poll, will |
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give you a decent amount of storage and speed. If you don't mind spending |
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more you can look at Crucial, PNY, Intel, etc. But keep in mind you'll |
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receive diminishing returns w.r.t. higher read and write speeds - you |
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actually get most of the speed increase due to an SSD's better random read |
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response, which can be had with even the cheapest ones. |
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Any disk you pick will be compatible with your motherboard, though if it is |
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older you may not reach the SSD's peak throughput. |
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I use a 256gb SSD drive with two 1TB platter drives. It will hold your OS, |
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swap, and some media. I use LVM. |
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Wear levelling will work properly even if you partition the whole disk |
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On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 1:14 PM, <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > The Crucial 512GB SSD is not that expensive and I found some notes on |
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> 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 |
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> think will be mounted on root partition. |
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> > -- |
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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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> How is the partitioning advise effected by lvm? I use that all the |
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> time and just do a normal boot partition and the rest given over to |
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> lvm. But this may be not good with an ssd. |
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> Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: |
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> How do |
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> you spend it? |
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> John Covici |
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