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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : (2) HDD or SSD ?
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:48:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEH5T2NfkwvqwttVUjPh5_Cx+3wEwe2ztvja_5SZ31fVH2oyxg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120720073144.GE2871@ca.inter.net>

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net> wrote:
> Is it viable to use an SSD for Portage ?

My nearly decade-old laptop, with a crappy Chinese brand of PATA SSD
blows away my i7 desktop which has a  fast HDD and 12GB of RAM when it
comes to emerge --sync and portage searches. Not to mention the laptop
boots to graphical login prompt in less than 5 seconds after I choose
Linux in the GRUB menu. Less heat and power usage, too.

So I think any modern computer with modern SSD should really fly. :)



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-20 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-20  7:31 [gentoo-user] new machine : (2) HDD or SSD ? Philip Webb
2012-07-20  8:12 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-07-20 15:48 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2012-07-20 16:05 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-07-22 16:19   ` Jacques Montier
2012-07-22 17:00     ` Michael Hampicke
2012-07-22 17:17       ` Jacques Montier
2012-07-22 17:30       ` Pandu Poluan
2012-07-22 17:46         ` Florian Philipp
2012-07-22 18:35           ` Michael Hampicke
2012-07-22 18:46             ` Florian Philipp
2012-07-23 14:53               ` Paul Hartman
2012-07-22 17:13     ` Pandu Poluan

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