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On Donnerstag 19 November 2009, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: |
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> Greets, gentoo-users, |
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> I hope not to bring up some boring ricer-topic ;-) |
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> I am thinking of getting one of those shiny new SSDs for my main |
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> workstation. Not that I really *need* it, my box is performing well, I |
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> admit that I am curious and somehow childish ... some way of getting |
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> myself a christmas present or something like that ... |
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> anyway |
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> Although I read of Intel's various firmware-problems with their SSDs, I |
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> tend to buy one of their 80GB X25-M G2 Postville SSDs. |
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> I definitely *know* that I will shake my head a few months later at how |
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> I could spend that much money for those few and slow gigs of ssd ... but |
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> ... (think 100$ for 128MB usb-stick ... you know ...) |
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> I think of using that ssd for my gentoo-os-partition(s) and I wonder if |
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> one of you is already doing that. And I would like to hear of any |
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> problems/blockers/sensations this brings. |
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> Thanks for any infos, I'd be happy to hear whatever your experience is ... |
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> Stefan |
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since ssds don't like write/erase cycles you should only put your system on |
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the ssd. Everything else, PORTDIR, PKGDIR, /var, /tmp, /usr/tmp and /usr/src |
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should be on a harddisk. |
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