On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:58, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
11.3. I've been doing some reading, and see a lot of conflicting info... in one place I see notes that you must set noatime and you cannot(should not)
"noatime" or a near work-alike [relatime?] is the default in modern kernels.
This is one of those conflicts of information I see. Some people say it's a default so no worries.. then the next says.. no way, you have to set this option or... the world will end... or your SSD will fail... whichever comes first.
In large part because the hype has dyed down. SSDs offer some specific advantages in some cases; and none in most cases. Just a more expensive solution for [less] mass-storage. Unless you have a real I/O bottleneck problem - don't bother. Most of the people I've met who are using them are doing so because they are the cool-new-thing.
There is that, but... on computers I've seen running on SSD drives, the boot cycle, and application startup is a LOT faster. it's not just a little bit better... it's a couple orders of magnitude faster.... which is why I'm looking into moving to SSD. My root install plus home directory could fit comfortably on a 64 or even a 32Gb drive. I have a couple of Tb of disks for storage, and that's all they do now... store files.. multimedia (music, video), web related stuff, game source files, work projects etc etc. All stuff that is accessed once in a while.. not on a reg basis. My thinking is... it might be possible to see a performance boost by switching over to SSD for the OS plus basic /home... thus the questions.. and the research I'm doing before I run out and buy the first SSD on the shelf. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org