From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SsFjI-0001dr-EY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:07:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D9FDBE0660; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:06:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BB0CE05D5 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:05:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkwj4 with SMTP id j4so3468674bkw.40 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 09:05:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=sFbN7Fjcv8nGJvyhuPZfyA7rrOzeBedme5AINitr1bg=; b=ZFsiVmhOAtA9/uAKsilM4YmbMsIlF9uuSwN4qvAOtlNUySm5x4OpytHVJ9FqXgztzI ZW9r+hdmpLYXl/v9046/uwxPjqj3mZfbSY62LpY3c6Tbi8NgJtZ8w55BD759HyHPUHnN uUiOIYGqeN54fXlSvJfpA/PynecH+3q/pRs9XsKc6EgQWRnr2PzssI3vJG322ooZlZIU j08V048qjS2icTR1tcq8kXR6BJZnOizuWE7jDIbULN6oKgEAvydr7J7VphNwrvbVFZl0 AqYtW771gckdR0mnt2txg7NOv2EK5I8T1KWi8Sj7UNj1rsaXJab0cSv8QIy+FVg6ERTk /Mxg== Received: by 10.205.134.133 with SMTP id ic5mr3612203bkc.15.1342800312042; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 09:05:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localnet (p4FC611A4.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [79.198.17.164]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id he8sm3093975bkc.3.2012.07.20.09.05.09 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 20 Jul 2012 09:05:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Philip Webb Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : (2) HDD or SSD ? Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:05:02 +0200 Message-ID: <1845885.eR33Cx4xls@localhost> User-Agent: KMail/4.9 rc1 (Linux/3.0.36; KDE/4.8.97; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20120720073144.GE2871@ca.inter.net> References: <20120720073144.GE2871@ca.inter.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: b79706d6-6bb9-496a-8385-1599815ee71d X-Archives-Hash: d88b0df5dfd6044fd5e20f3c3612b698 Am Freitag, 20. Juli 2012, 03:31:44 schrieb Philip Webb: > My regular machine has a Seagate SATA 320 GB ( 3 Gb/s 16 MB ). > > Have SSDs reached the point where they are reliable & long-lasting ? > Should I perhaps install an SSD for some uses + an HDD for others ? > Is it viable to use an SSD for Portage ? > > Apart from Portage + a few everyday files, > there isn't much churn among the stuff I have on my existing HDD (above). > > I saw a recent thread on this topic, but further thoughts are welcome. forget the i7. Buy something a lot cheaper and invest the money into a nice, fat SSD like Vertex3. Money well spent. -- #163933