On Thursday, March 13, 2014 09:01:13 Hans Witvliet wrote:
On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 11:37 -0400, Jason wrote:
Hi Hans,
On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 23:06:09 Hans Witvliet wrote:
On Tue, 2014-03-11 at 13:41 +0800, Jason wrote:
Run them as you'd normally do, there's no need to complicate things. It's state of the art technology and everything is basically done for you by the fw.
That said, you should read these few links[1] and balance it out basically. Alignment is what is most important when setting up the partitions for life and performance. Other than that, ext4 mount flags and mindful use of high I/O operations is enough.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Solid_State_Drives https://wiki.debian.org/SSDOptimization
Has ssd quality improved that much?
Couple of years ago i replaced a normal hdd with a 30GB sdd, and installed the distro on it. However, the swap certainly killed the sdd.
What makes you think swap killed it and what brand was it? Usually the way it fails tells you what happened. If you started to have lots of freezes, corrupted data, rw errors, this are cells deteriorating. If it failed suddenly, it is most likely the controller itself that crapped itself. No, it wasn't that. Seen that behaviour on too many USB-drives
The system used to have little mem (just 2GB). It started with read errors on the device, first once a week, (i noticed but gave little attention). Later on became more and more, until a dayly log-rotate was filled up with it. I'll guess one of the latest thing i did was a system update, followed by an complete distro upgrade. After that failed, i tried a freash (from iso) install, but i could not put a file system on the disk anymore....
Cell dying off. This is actually most favorable failure. Intel will for example enter ro mode if that starts to happen so you can clone the drive if needed.
So, i guess with moders sdd, the best choice is to get the biggest you can, so that the wear can be spread among a far more greater number of cells. (And i would still keep the "safety-lane" swap-area on a dedicated traditional hdd)
Not necessarily biggest, but at minimum 80GB if used as a main drive. If there is lot of swapping going around it defeats the purpose of SSD. It really isn't an issue to have it on SSD but that is just my 2c.
btw, i just noticed that i paid more for my 30GB drive than i would have to pay now for a 1TB SSD-drive. Time flies, just like money.
Indeed. Intel X25M was a kidney and then some:) That said, it is really without comparison with 'classic' HDD as a main drive. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org