Re: OT: SSD or not to SSD, that is the question

2015-09-16 Thread Richard Shaw
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

Re: OT: SSD or not to SSD, that is the question

2015-09-09 Thread Tim
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

Re: OT: SSD or not to SSD, that is the question

2015-09-08 Thread Rick Stevens
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

Re: OT: SSD or not to SSD, that is the question

2015-09-08 Thread Tom Horsley
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

Re: OT: SSD or not to SSD, that is the question

2015-09-04 Thread Pete Travis
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

Re: OT: SSD or not to SSD, that is the question

2015-09-04 Thread Richard Shaw
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 >

Re: OT: SSD or not to SSD, that is the question

2015-09-04 Thread Michael Hennebry
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

Re: OT: SSD or not to SSD, that is the question

2015-09-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
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

Re: OT: SSD or not to SSD, that is the question

2015-09-04 Thread Richard Shaw
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