On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 8:28 PM, Ted Byers <r.ted.byers@gmail.com> wrote:
I am considering replacing the drives, and their controllers by SATA controllers and SSDs. However, I have been told by a number of local experts that often times the SSDs are not properly recognised, and also that at least some require special drivers.
I have not heard of any issues with SSDs... at least not on the consumer market side. Iv'e got a couple OCZ Agility III's and they behave and act just like a normal hard drive - except a whole lot faster. I don't know if it makes a difference but I run all my drives (SSD and mechanical) in AHCI mode, not Legacy IDE.
If I restrict consideration to the best SSDs on the market (as far as I can tell, that would be Intel and Crucial), do I need to worry about locating special drivers for the drive for use on the latest Suse distribution. And, if the controller is SATA, do I need to worry about the drive being recognised, at least for models produced in the last year or so? What does you collective experience indicate?
My collective experience is to think... what were your experts on about with SSDs not being recognized by Linux. C. -- openSUSE 12.2 x86_64, KDE 4.10 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org