Re: [gentoo-user] SSD recmmendation / input

[Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>]

The Crucial 512GB SSD is not that expensive and I found some notes on partitioning SSD on Gentoo:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SSD

It seems to me I'll only have boot, swap and root partition; home I think will be mounted on root partition.

--
Joseph


On 08/29/14 07:49, Daniel Frey wrote:
>On 08/28/2014 09:54 PM, Joseph wrote:
>> No, I wouldn't get 1TB SSD too expensive but something like 300GB I
>> might consider it.
>> Are they worth the investment? What brand do you have and how long?
>
>I have several SSDs. I currently use Kingston, Crucial, and Intel.
>
>A bit of background - I use a mythtv setup with multiple frontends. I
>had a SSD in the backend but it failed after about two years with no
>warning -- one day I noticed the frontends behaving strangely and found
>out I couldn't log into the backend (via ssh or directly.) The server
>sustained a lot of writes to the database daily, however, the actual
>recordings were on rust disks.
>
>It was a Kingston that failed, a 32GB model.
>
>The Crucial and Intel I have are still relatively new, the Crucial being
>a year and a bit old, and the Intel only a few days old. :-)
>
>Speedwise, there's no comparison. Especially running emerge/compiling -
>my frontend (equipped with an E8400 and 2GB RAM) with the Kingston SSD
>beats my main workstation equipped with a rust raid10 (a QX9650 with 8
>GB RAM) every time.
>
>I have two recommendations for a new SSD user - 1) Flash the firmware to
>a new version right away if available, and 2) Don't partition the entire
>SSD if you can avoid it. Apparently SSDs will use unused space for wear
>leveling - as an example I believe I only partitioned 20GB (out of a
>64GB SSD) on my frontends. That's a bit excessive and you may not be
>able to do that, but you get the idea.
>
>Also make sure to use parted to partition so the partitions themselves
>are aligned properly.
>
>(Regarding the firmware update - my Crucial had one and I ignored it.
>About 3 months later my laptop was acting weird and complaining about
>the disk. I was lucky - I flashed the firmware and it was fine with no
>data loss. Others are not so lucky...)
>
>Dan