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2013/7/19 Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> |
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> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 03:22:11 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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>>>>> Do you really want to put /home on a SSD? |
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>>>> Why not? |
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>>>> /home is the most frequently-read directory on most systems, and SSD |
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>>>> is ideal for that. |
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>>>> If you are concerned about wear-levelling, /home is not the danger |
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>>>> point |
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>>> Interesting. I'm not sure I would want mine on a SSD even if it would |
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>>> fit on one. The only part that might help would be my .kde |
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>>> and .mozilla directory. |
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>> SSDs are not like USB flash drives, and it's been years since I managed |
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>> to wear one of those out (mainly due to a kernel bug). They have |
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>> lifetimes similar to spinny disks these days. |
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> Now I really feel about better getting one. That was my concern and reason for the question. I'm sure /home gets its share of reads and writes and was thinking the writes would cause a problem over time. Maybe they are better now than they was a while back. |
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> Thanks for the update. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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> I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! |
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I came across the topic of SSD writes when setting up my laptop with |
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an ssd and the question, is a tmpfs vor /var/tmp/portage or swapfile |
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on SSD a good idea? At some point I found this at ArchWiki page about |
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SSDs[1], but I don't know how up to date or correct this is. |
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"A 32GB SSD with a mediocre 10x write amplification factor, a standard |
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10000 write/erase cycle, and 10GB of data written per day, would get |
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an 8 years life expectancy. It gets better with bigger SSDs and modern |
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controllers with less write amplification." |
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Now I have /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs and a swapfile on the SSD, but I |
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think the drive will last for the next years so i don't have to worry |
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much about it. |
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[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Solid_State_Drives |
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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards |
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Randolph Maaßen |
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