Got my new 256GB SSD yesterday.
Since I was moving from a larger drive to a smaller one this one made me a
bit more nervous that other hard drive replacements.
I used System Rescue CD to do all the work with a combination of gparted
and lvm tools. I'm not sure if anyone is interested in the
Rick Stevens wrote:
>> SSDs are fast, but when they die, it's typically sudden, with no
>> warning, catastrophic and irrecoverable.
Tom Horsley:
> You mean just like every "normal" hard disk I've ever had die? (OK,
> one did get smart errors first, but all the others just went kaput
> with no
On 09/04/2015 01:56 PM, Pete Travis wrote:
On Sep 4, 2015 3:14 PM, "Richard Shaw" > wrote:
>
> I have two drives in my desktop computer, a 500GB for / and /var
which is failing, and a 1TB drive for /home and swap.
>
> Cost is definitely an
On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 09:44:31 -0700
Rick Stevens wrote:
> SSDs are fast, but when
> they die, it's typically sudden, with no warning, catastrophic and
> irrecoverable.
You mean just like every "normal" hard disk I've ever had die? (OK,
one did get smart errors first, but all the others just went
On Sep 4, 2015 3:14 PM, "Richard Shaw" wrote:
>
> I have two drives in my desktop computer, a 500GB for / and /var which is
failing, and a 1TB drive for /home and swap.
>
> Cost is definitely an issue so I have narrowed my options down to a 1TB
drive for about $53 or a 256MB
On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Pete Travis wrote:
> Absolutely get a *quality* SSD. I've had a Samsung 830 since they were
> new and use mock and got and more on a frequent basis, with no ill
> effects. I've had three spinning drives fail during that time, with varied
>
On Fri, 4 Sep 2015, Richard Shaw wrote:
I have two drives in my desktop computer, a 500GB for / and /var which is
failing, and a 1TB drive for /home and swap.
Cost is definitely an issue so I have narrowed my options down to a 1TB
drive for about $53 or a 256MB SSD for about $86.
Obviously
On 09/04/2015 10:56 PM, Pete Travis wrote:
On Sep 4, 2015 3:14 PM, "Richard Shaw" > wrote:
>
> I have two drives in my desktop computer, a 500GB for / and /var
which is failing, and a 1TB drive for /home and swap.
>
> Cost is definitely an
On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Michael Hennebry <
henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Sep 2015, Richard Shaw wrote:
>
> I have two drives in my desktop computer, a 500GB for / and /var which is
>> failing, and a 1TB drive for /home and swap.
>>
>> Cost is definitely an issue so I