Joseph <syscon...@gmail.com> wrote: > The Crucial 512GB SSD is not that expensive and I found some notes on > partitioning SSD on Gentoo: > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SSD > > It seems to me I'll only have boot, swap and root partition; home I think > will be mounted on root partition. > > -- > Joseph > > > On 08/29/14 07:49, Daniel Frey wrote: > >On 08/28/2014 09:54 PM, Joseph wrote: > >> No, I wouldn't get 1TB SSD too expensive but something like 300GB I > >> might consider it. > >> Are they worth the investment? What brand do you have and how long? > > > >I have several SSDs. I currently use Kingston, Crucial, and Intel. > > > >A bit of background - I use a mythtv setup with multiple frontends. I > >had a SSD in the backend but it failed after about two years with no > >warning -- one day I noticed the frontends behaving strangely and found > >out I couldn't log into the backend (via ssh or directly.) The server > >sustained a lot of writes to the database daily, however, the actual > >recordings were on rust disks. > > > >It was a Kingston that failed, a 32GB model. > > > >The Crucial and Intel I have are still relatively new, the Crucial being > >a year and a bit old, and the Intel only a few days old. :-) > > > >Speedwise, there's no comparison. Especially running emerge/compiling - > >my frontend (equipped with an E8400 and 2GB RAM) with the Kingston SSD > >beats my main workstation equipped with a rust raid10 (a QX9650 with 8 > >GB RAM) every time. > > > >I have two recommendations for a new SSD user - 1) Flash the firmware to > >a new version right away if available, and 2) Don't partition the entire > >SSD if you can avoid it. Apparently SSDs will use unused space for wear > >leveling - as an example I believe I only partitioned 20GB (out of a > >64GB SSD) on my frontends. That's a bit excessive and you may not be > >able to do that, but you get the idea. > > > >Also make sure to use parted to partition so the partitions themselves > >are aligned properly. > > > >(Regarding the firmware update - my Crucial had one and I ignored it. > >About 3 months later my laptop was acting weird and complaining about > >the disk. I was lucky - I flashed the firmware and it was fine with no > >data loss. Others are not so lucky...) How is the partitioning advise effected by lvm? I use that all the time and just do a normal boot partition and the rest given over to lvm. But this may be not good with an ssd.
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