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On Thursday, March 13, 2014 07:49:35 C wrote:
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Jason wrote:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Solid_State_Drives https://wiki.debian.org/SSDOptimization
Has ssd quality improved that much?
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Also, Samsung seems to be good these days, they probably learned their lesson first time around. Toshiba is also good. Most of the SSDs use Toshiba's memory so one shouldn't go wrong with it.
I'm using Samsung 840 Pro 256Gb SSDs, and they are really holding up nicely (great MTBF rating, high IOPS, high read/write rating). Very fast, and reliable. So far not a single failure or error report (in a laptop and two desktops) with normal/heavy use, but nothing approaching datacantre use. The two desktops are on 24x7, have swap on the SSD (although the swap is never written to because the desktops have 8 and 16Gb RAM and never need swap). The only "tweaks" to the SSD config is to add "discard" to the fstab lines.
Thanks for letting me know, next time around I will include it. At the time I bought Intel drives Samsung was in the middle of 'bad press' as trim wasn't supported and there was no way to update the firmware. As for the discard, few people have told me in the past few days not to use it and considering they know what they're talking about I'm not questioning it so I have personally removed it. Sensible flags for btrfs on ssd are noatime,autodefrag,compress=lzo and that is coming from a person who works on btrfs.
At all costs avoid OEM solutions, you want to have clear fw update path and proper support.
This is REALLY important in my experience. The OEM and no-name-brand/low cost budget SSDs that you can get aren't worth it. I've had those fail really fast... controllers stopped working, corrupted data etc.
As I said, pick out a balanced approach, most of the writeups are overkill.
And out of date, reflecting the facts as the were in 2008/2009.
Yes. But SSDs haven't really changed that much, the basics are still the same and reliability went up and down and up again, depending on the time. I have to add here my 'rule of thumb' re: fw updates. I found that is best to update at least a month _after_ latest release and to follow up on update every time without skipping. btw, this were the articles that 'sold' me on ssd: http://www.anandtech.com/show/2738 http://www.anandtech.com/show/2829 Old, but still valid.
What I can tell you though is that I'm not treating them any different than a regular drive and I abuse the fact they're fast:) What I provided is all anecdotal evidence though.
Same here. The SSD is treated as a normal drive in all systems I work with. I don't play conservative with read/writes... I install Linux distros regularly on the laptop (mainly testing, experimenting with oS Factory builds etc).
Anecdotal evidence is the best kind... right? :-)
:)
C.
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