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On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Kyle Bader <kyle.bader@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> - SSD vs 10000rpm vs big-and-cheap hard drive for rootfs/system files. |
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>> I lean toward the latter since RAM caches it anyway. |
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> SSDs can make things snappier for boot times. Having lots of ram for |
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> disk cache eliminates the benefit after booted since ram is even |
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> faster than a SSD. |
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I decided on a hard drive for the primary disk rather than SSD. For a |
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combination of size (1TB), performance (according to benchmarks) and |
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price (according to my pockets) I chose a Samsung HD103SJ (7200rpm, |
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1TB, 32MB cache, 2x500gb platters) drive which appears to have great |
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overall performance and low operating temperatures. |
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I haven't received the disks yet so for now I'm just playing with an |
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old spare drive and installed Windows 7 (trial) for |
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configuring/testing the overclock settings since all of the |
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motherboard tools are in Windows only. Once I have it running fast & |
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cool, it's Gentoo time! |
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I also tried the Gentoo LiveDVD 10.1, written to a USB flash drive |
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(with unetbootin), and it worked great. I had the PC hooked up to my |
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TV with HDMI and it used proper 16:9 resolution, got DHCP address |
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automatically and everything seemed to simply work properly. It will |
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be great to use Konsole and Firefox during install, compared to having |
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a 80x25 terminal like I did many years ago in my last install. Good |
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job to the LiveDVD team! |
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