On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 17:51 +0200, C wrote:
Has anyone started seriously testing and tinkering with openSUSE on SSD drives? The prices are dropping and I'm thinking it's time to move over to SSD for my main drive - I'm thinking I'll do this around the release of 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.
Most of the rest of the information is at least 2 years old and mostly focuses on panic over the limited read/write cycles on SSDs... one
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. Unless you do careful reasearch on the unit to buy they don't necessarily even save you any power [assuming you are using a laptop and care about power].
camp says no problems, just install as usual... the other says no way.. disable this and that, and put home on a reg drive, and and and. So.. what's the concensus here? Just install as normal now? Treat the drives as a reg drive? Or handle with care and assume I'm venturing into fail country?
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