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 1NBMc4-0006vT-NH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:04:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D9596E0A6C for ; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:04:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E315E06C5 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:05:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1808A67805 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:05:49 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.322 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.322 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.723, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id k8cMZLQRvvYV for ; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:05:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F35D67C7D for ; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:05:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NBLge-0001V0-FF for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:05:36 +0100 Received: from port-87-234-135-12.dynamic.qsc.de ([87.234.135.12]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:05:36 +0100 Received: from holger.hoffstaette by port-87-234-135-12.dynamic.qsc.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:05:36 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: "Holger Hoffstaette" Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo on ssds? intel anyone? Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:48:37 +0100 Organization: The Fists of the White Lotus Message-ID: References: <4B05CB09.20209@xunil.at> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: port-87-234-135-12.dynamic.qsc.de User-Agent: Pan/0.13.91 (Before we let euphoria convince us we are free) Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: e8673b84-03bc-4f17-b6f7-d707c28a7016 X-Archives-Hash: c39c0351650d23866df18fdf1b2e92c3 On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:47:37 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > 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 have the older 80MB (G1) and a new 160GB G2 for another machine just arrived. The fixed TRIM-enabled firmware for the G2 should reappear soon as well. Btw the problem with the previous version mostly affected Window= s7. > I definitely *know* that I will shake my head a few months later at how= I No you won't. > 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. Been using one in my day-to-day workstation under both Windows and Gentoo (with ext4). After 5 minutes you will fight anyone who would try to take it away again to the death. -h