From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NnfD8-0001hJ-Gk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:37:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F2066E0AD4; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 21:37:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f203.google.com (mail-yw0-f203.google.com [209.85.211.203]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3F7AE0AD4 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 21:37:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh41 with SMTP id 41so1919301ywh.9 for ; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:37:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=PF/lIn5yHsVY4AmIRZUFrnps3f+/BOgI0o7/WcbMX6Q=; b=U9ZLZXeuBpZfHBA30i3f3eVToAs4Rpn893egEPa+rzIRDmo9fNyWDA4jv36h01GvgU ZRwSw6etKpVA4pxAkYISZvnrtuTsKMKFlSTbIUWsODuVKMIn0PmLnE7aI/X1KfA6HeM6 7rsY3CVCqdtpl60w09k0XyjgtpW5jaTKGep+0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=BIXP1u5GU0rLYuu4SKAY68pM3Swo8mEFz2roymzAIUWTAZ4c1OofawcPHhTtuMq4QW 68fNlsU5Pd6ZFMcLs8m2Yzropgl53BfhTm7DEzk5BMqRMjPNHzb7QbY7XzIKl1Yq6T5v Np1CtUc7zyBPkEIHnGFsov+kjzLnsHPN4y77k= 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.150.5.21 with SMTP id 21mr1610850ybe.95.1267825035256; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:37:15 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <854dca5c1002261024k48b17392r8b59098a987b2938@mail.gmail.com> References: <58965d8a1002260954v37bc6293xd4b92d82183bd346@mail.gmail.com> <854dca5c1002261024k48b17392r8b59098a987b2938@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 15:37:15 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4c3b1784524062cc Message-ID: <58965d8a1003051337r550f1181xe381edd848d16b90@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 9621aeaa-3f2e-49d9-b1b0-aae396c414cd X-Archives-Hash: d4f3bc1c3369ad5f2820ff8a1ac28be7 On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Kyle Bader 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!