On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Roger Oberholtzer
We are currently exploring installing openSUSE on a system with SSD storage. I am curious what others have experienced with these disks. Specifically,
1. What version of openSUSE has the best support? I guess the obvious answer would be 12.1. But what version first had decent support? The SSD suppliers suggest that Linux kernel 2.6.33 is a minimum requirement.
2. What SSD features are good to have and are supported in openSUSE?
3. What outstanding issues are there that might make one think twice?
A big reason for this is that good SCSI disks are currently unavailable in Sweden at this time. So we are looking for an alternative for some installs we plan over the coming months. Any advice is welcome.
Yours sincerely,
Roger Oberholtzer
Roger, My understanding is SSDs have a higher failure rate in the real world than rotating disks. In particular, they seem to have a higher sector or block failure rate. So you might want to consider raid-1 if the data is important. I suggest reading: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:SSD_Idle_Time_Garbage_Collection_support and http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:SSD_discard_%28trim%29_support I wrote most of that content, so let me know if you have questions. It may be a bit out of date since I wrote most of it a couple years ago. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org