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On Friday 19 Jul 2013 17:43:39 Dale wrote: |
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> luis jure wrote: |
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> > on 2013-07-19 at 01:56 Dale wrote: |
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> >> Do you really want to put /home on a SSD? |
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> > well, not actually the whole /home, the SSD is too small for that. i'm |
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> > not sure yet, i might keep /home on a HDD and mount the partition on the |
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> > SSD as a directory under /home for some special uses. or the other way |
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> > around... |
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> Size was one issue I thought of but I was more concerned with the wear |
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> and tear part but that was explained by others. It seems that is not as |
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> much a issue any more. |
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> At one time, I had a /data directory. I stored large stuff there: |
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> camera pics, videos, audio stuff and such. If you put /home on SSD, you |
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> could always put the larger stuff on another mount point. One thing |
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> about Linux, you can mount stuff wherever you want. |
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> Post back how it works out and any speed improvements you see. I'm |
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> really curious since I would like to get one that is at least big enough |
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> for the OS itself. My /home is over 1Tb, that is Tb too. I'm not buying |
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> one big enough for all that. lol |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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I have a MUCH smaller /home than Dale and on a new box I was thinking of |
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having it on a HDD, along with all things portage related. I typically resync |
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3 -4 times a week but I am not sure how much erase/write cycles this |
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represents. Also, /home is written all the time with mail and various |
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application profile folders, browser cache and what have you. That's why I |
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was thinking that /usr/portage, /var/tmp/portage, /var/log, /home and /swap |
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were candidates for HDD. |
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I guess the rest under / does not change that often and a weekly or even |
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monthly back up would be all that is necessary to facilitate recovery when the |
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SSD dies on me. |
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Am I being too cautious with current technology SSDs? |
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BTW, unless anyone advises differently, I was thinking of buying a SanDisk |
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Extreme II, SATA III, 2.5" 240GB SSD. I read that its SLC cache improves |
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speed and reliability, but I don't know if true. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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