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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NBHFM-0007em-9D for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:21:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DC41DE1038 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:21:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f225.google.com (mail-fx0-f225.google.com [209.85.220.225]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8814E0B2A for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:06:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm25 with SMTP id 25so3177620fxm.26 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:06:01 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=tcRBWLvtN0JJB7OmRPpDZFxA0OGJf17kG/iiq0zxTvc=; b=ek5SsoxrUc+p+xVoWK3dh5t/Rdh5F+bBA/xJMXERSMIxJgUgXkAtcp/Y0meiamedxp PkiKzgWXZdmT/KX9irwtYAYrj/goeAlbL+19fR04yzbE8beHM81cNyu3PVXkGPqfaA8F 0hnD9wGzZcUrMQ/j5dsaZgUj8PmlzDYWI8J4g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=mqeyll/rqxHRrYYR3yqLUAa/dMypaVzN3CiSywiMwd1xdjGEDu5RFYlPVyXx6Rrk4X l5rjZN16qKaS6eV4v0C/F0sXCYKumoIKpQyWTfVosVmE9X5b8DOM+bchtQT7FB7X4qnm HO5lzlISFAx10aJ+rFesqgmmlvapVrzcN1k/k= Received: by 10.216.89.149 with SMTP id c21mr184498wef.224.1258671960530; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:06:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q9sm1649027gve.15.2009.11.19.15.05.59 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:06:00 -0800 (PST) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on ssds? intel anyone? Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:05:55 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.3 (Linux/2.6.31.5r4; KDE/4.3.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <4B05CB09.20209@xunil.at> In-Reply-To: <4B05CB09.20209@xunil.at> 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-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200911200005.55921.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 1473836c-f3f7-4929-a253-ac1555304f20 X-Archives-Hash: cfcfd5ea610e095950e60ea3e46a590f On Donnerstag 19 November 2009, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Greets, gentoo-users, > I hope not to bring up some boring ricer-topic ;-) > > I am thinking of getting one of those shiny new SSDs for my main > workstation. Not that I really *need* it, my box is performing well, I > admit that I am curious and somehow childish ... some way of getting > myself a christmas present or something like that ... > > anyway > > Although I read of Intel's various firmware-problems with their SSDs, I > tend to buy one of their 80GB X25-M G2 Postville SSDs. > > I definitely *know* that I will shake my head a few months later at how > I could spend that much money for those few and slow gigs of ssd ... but > ... (think 100$ for 128MB usb-stick ... you know ...) > > I think of using that ssd for my gentoo-os-partition(s) and I wonder if > one of you is already doing that. And I would like to hear of any > problems/blockers/sensations this brings. > > Thanks for any infos, I'd be happy to hear whatever your experience is ... > > Stefan > since ssds don't like write/erase cycles you should only put your system on the ssd. Everything else, PORTDIR, PKGDIR, /var, /tmp, /usr/tmp and /usr/src should be on a harddisk.