From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFFBF13877A for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 16:22:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A5AEE0C10; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 16:22:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail145c7.megamailservers.com (mail130c7-2520.megamailservers.com [69.49.98.25]) (using TLSv1.1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EDC63E0BD8 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 16:22:08 +0000 (UTC) X-POP-User: admin@sys-concept.com X-VIP: 69.49.109.100 Received: from syscon7.localdomain (S01060050da7ae68c.ed.shawcable.net [68.149.90.13]) by mail145c7.megamailservers.com (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id s7TGM6lp013288 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 12:22:07 -0400 Received: by syscon7.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 39BF920027A; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 10:22:18 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 10:22:18 -0600 From: Joseph To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SSD recmmendation / input Message-ID: <20140829162218.GD29499@syscon7> References: <20140828204510.GI26952@syscon7> <201408282246.31427.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20140828225657.GJ26952@syscon7> <53FFFD5B.1060301@gmail.com> <20140829045425.GK26952@syscon7> <540092F4.4000305@gmail.com> 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; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <540092F4.4000305@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020204.5400A8AF.0238,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-Score: 0.000 X-CTCH-Rules: X-CTCH-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-ScoreCust: 0.000 X-CSC: 0 X-CHA: v=2.1 cv=LtirlBtc c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=C3ZDv51cNVt4vJz/79I2xQ==:117 a=C3ZDv51cNVt4vJz/79I2xQ==:17 a=SDcUNfBxAAAA:8 a=BDKbP5mgAAAA:8 a=Unq3plm5DvEA:10 a=M1kyBYkWWGkA:10 a=GLTkG9zomGgA:10 a=yXopBtlbqbYA:10 a=nDghuxUhq_wA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=7mOBRU54AAAA:8 a=JHtDWs4MRNL2CsoR_2wA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 X-Archives-Salt: 6b212ca9-daaa-43df-aa1f-8cdf5f74cb5b X-Archives-Hash: 12505aeef0cc6b92c2fef60fd8a7fd54 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