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> SSDs are a common replacement for HDs nowaday -- but I still trust my |
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> HDs more than this "flashy" things...call me retro or oldschool, but |
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> it my current "Bauchgefühl" (gut feeling). |
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The days of shitty JMicron stuff and OCZ drives dropping like flies are |
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long gone... you are not going to encounter write endurance problems |
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with a modern SSD from a reputable brand and any kind of reasonable |
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workload. Stay clear from QLC drives and you'll be fine. |
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I have a laptop with a 256GB Plextor M5M SSD installed in 2014. I dual |
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boot Gentoo and Windows, and in addition to the normal stuff, on the |
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Gentoo side I do a couple of world updates per week -- which with a full |
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KDE desktop involves quite a bit of compiling and writing around. |
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The SSD is currently reporting 98% of its rated life left: I feel quite |
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confident it's going to outlast the laptop's useful life. |
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That's not a single datapoint; every system I have around has used an |
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SSD as a primary disk for years now, and I've yet to see one fail or |
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develop any kind of corruption issue. In the same timespan I've had a |
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fair number of HDD failures. |
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> The HD will contain the whole system including the complete root |
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> filesustem. Updateing, installing via Gentoo tools will run using |
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> the HD. If that process has ended, I will rsync the HD based root |
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> fileystem to the SSD. > Folders, which will be written to by the sustem while running will |
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> be symlinked to the HD. |
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> This should work...? |
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It will probably work, if you hack at it long enough :D |
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But seriously, what's the point? Setting up a patchwork of a filesystem |
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like that and maintaining it in time is going to be a complexity and |
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reliability nightmare: if you're going to those lengths because you |
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don't trust SSDs, why have an SSD at all? |
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andrea |