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 77D861381F3 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2013 08:55:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C8B65E0C86; Fri, 19 Jul 2013 08:55:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yh0-f49.google.com (mail-yh0-f49.google.com [209.85.213.49]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9B9C2E0C72 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2013 08:55:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-yh0-f49.google.com with SMTP id v1so1436241yhn.22 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2013 01:55:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=o396bn9NyESKizvxbri/0ft53MlFiRQRP+OaSSMBE6Y=; b=xShZP0Wa8D9CsFDEEt1Ww5JuSZbkTXb6fd5brrayVMFEGXQNeVGhmDkO1RZER+XtKq qw2wm3xRxlAVcExtVcqCKXW2jdK4bxJAZqOGYnxWjg7ddMhzEJiYz47dKyG7JKhHXleB +YUgHn9bV5gI3keNgf0cbKTdYaPJ8yuppocayLuJ97rZ0x3NJTjB2fSknw6/ZxJ44Ikw gKcVGAemga6dAvlK73ifHUzS8DcQvS32eYQ6WAnVxuHQBUlXpu3ixHZFZhrUjF6G7cvu FbXiqkrb1/CwvKqkASSKarv6X7Z+csl38qMt2mYRvPLh511u0FpQd9s96BHp6Uvb2htc 50LQ== X-Received: by 10.236.202.211 with SMTP id d59mr7956755yho.221.1374224139809; Fri, 19 Jul 2013 01:55:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-122-60.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.122.60]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id v68sm20264409yhn.22.2013.07.19.01.55.38 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 19 Jul 2013 01:55:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <51E8FF09.8000408@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 03:55:37 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0 SeaMonkey/2.19 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration References: <20130718182232.5c1301ce@acme7.acmenet> <51E8E30E.20906@gmail.com> <51E8E8E9.7010501@gmail.com> <51E8F733.7070306@gmail.com> <20130719092702.541cc9e8@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20130719092702.541cc9e8@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 13483e4b-b277-440f-be03-60df676ad758 X-Archives-Hash: c11037f2affce8e7c1b6487196e70b69 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 03:22:11 -0500, Dale wrote: > >>>> Do you really want to put /home on a SSD? >>> Why not? >>> >>> /home is the most frequently-read directory on most systems, and SSD >>> is ideal for that. >>> >>> If you are concerned about wear-levelling, /home is not the danger >>> point >> Interesting. I'm not sure I would want mine on a SSD even if it would >> fit on one. The only part that might help would be my .kde >> and .mozilla directory. > SSDs are not like USB flash drives, and it's been years since I managed > to wear one of those out (mainly due to a kernel bug). They have > lifetimes similar to spinny disks these days. > > Now I really feel about better getting one. That was my concern and reason for the question. I'm sure /home gets its share of reads and writes and was thinking the writes would cause a problem over time. Maybe they are better now than they was a while back. Thanks for the update. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!