Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on ssds? intel anyone?

[App Des <app4des@gmail.com>]

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I think that buying an SSD right now is not worth it. If you are going to
buy one, get the intel G2 ones, but in my opinion it is always better to
first max out your RAM in your PC. After all the SSD is going to help when
you first boot your PC or open a program. After that everything is cached in
RAM and there will be no speed difference. Only in the rare case that you
use so many programs (that don't fit in cache) and compile things everyday
(which messes up the cache) you are going to need it.

Also you don't need to mess with many fstab/scheduler settings, it is not
worth it imo. Just add "noatime" to your favorite file system and you are
good to go.

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger <lists@xunil.at>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
>
>
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