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On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Kyle Bader <kyle.bader@gmail.com> wrote:
>> - SSD vs 10000rpm vs big-and-cheap hard drive for rootfs/system files.
>> I lean toward the latter since RAM caches it anyway.
>
> SSDs can make things snappier for boot times.  Having lots of ram for
> disk cache eliminates the benefit after booted since ram is even
> faster than a SSD.

I decided on a hard drive for the primary disk rather than SSD. For a
combination of size (1TB), performance (according to benchmarks) and
price (according to my pockets) I chose a Samsung HD103SJ (7200rpm,
1TB, 32MB cache, 2x500gb platters) drive which appears to have great
overall performance and low operating temperatures.

I haven't received the disks yet so for now I'm just playing with an
old spare drive and installed Windows 7 (trial) for
configuring/testing the overclock settings since all of the
motherboard tools are in Windows only. Once I have it running fast &
cool, it's Gentoo time!

I also tried the Gentoo LiveDVD 10.1, written to a USB flash drive
(with unetbootin), and it worked great. I had the PC hooked up to my
TV with HDMI and it used proper 16:9 resolution, got DHCP address
automatically and everything seemed to simply work properly. It will
be great to use Konsole and Firefox during install, compared to having
a 80x25 terminal like I did many years ago in my last install. Good
job to the LiveDVD team!