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On Thursday, August 28, 2014 10:54:25 PM Joseph wrote: |
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> No, I wouldn't get 1TB SSD too expensive but something like 300GB I might |
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> consider it. Are they worth the investment? What brand do you have and how |
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> long? |
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Please do NOT top-post. |
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Currently, from what I found out, good brands are: |
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Intel, Samsung and Crucial. |
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Do check on how they perform though, for my usage (Extensive use of VMs), the |
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Samsung EVOs were not suitable as the performance can drop with large writes. |
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(doesn't help when taking a full snapshot, eg. with memory-dump, of a VM with |
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a lot of memory) |
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But for most people, the EVOs are good. |
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The Samsung Pro does not have this, but costs more. |
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The Crucial has, according to some reviews, a cleaner shutdown where any |
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outstanding writes during shutdown are actually committed to disk. I am not |
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convinced I will ever notice it either way though. |
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Intel has good reviews and good performance. |
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For any model you are considering, check the reviews online as the technology |
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behind SSDs is still changing and the firmware and chips keep changing as |
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well. A good brand now, might be a bad one tomorrow. |
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For reference, I use the following in my laptop: |
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# smartctl -a /dev/sda | grep "Device Model" |
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Device Model: INTEL SSDMCEAC120B3 |
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# smartctl -a /dev/sdb | grep "Device Model" |
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Device Model: Crucial_CT1024M550SSD1 |
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Joost |
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> -- |
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> Joseph |
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> |
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> On 08/29/14 06:11, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> >On 29/08/2014 00:56, Joseph wrote: |
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> >> So there seems to be a pattern :-/ |
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> >> How about SSD they are not that much more? Will it withstand Gentoo |
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> >> compilations :-) ? |
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> >No. There is not a pattern. Two guys used drives for 5 years and then |
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> >they failed. |
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> > |
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> >5 years? Wow. That's double what you can reasonably expect, you got good |
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> >service. |
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> >SSDs are much more expensive than spinning disks, 1TB will cost a |
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> >fortune. But they work in Gentoo very well - I'm on my second and this |
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> >one is 256G, still runs as fast as the day I got it. |
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> > |
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> >> -- |
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> >> Joseph |
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> >> |
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> >> On 08/28/14 22:46, Mick wrote: |
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> >>> On Thursday 28 Aug 2014 21:45:10 Joseph wrote: |
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> >>>> I need to select 500GB or 1TB infernal 2.5in drive, any recommendation |
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> >>>> (reliability) of the brand. My current WD 320GB fail after 5-years. |
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> >>> Interesting ... mine also failed catastrophically a couple of months |
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> >>> ago after |
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> >>> around 5 years of continuous use. |
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> >>> |
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> >>> Which reminds me to run a backup on my Seagate: |
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> >>> |
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> >>> Model Family: Seagate Momentus 7200.4 |
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> >>> Device Model: ST9500420ASG |
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> >>> I'm not sure how much anecdotal reports on reliable drives actually hold |
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> >>> water, unless we're talking about an epidemic of failures like I seem to |
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> >>> recall Dell's Seagate drives experienced a few years ago. |
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> >>> |
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> >>> -- |
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> >>> Regards, |
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> >>> Mick |