On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Jim Thompson <j...@smallworks.com> wrote: >> On the other hand, I tend to distrust manufacturers that shipped >> completely unreliable drives without any thought. >> Kingston/OCZ/Crucial are all in this boat for me. > > I’m sure I’ve been burned at least as badly by these, and others, and I > still buy from them.
What can you do? The speed increase from SSDs in a PC means its almost impossible to go back to an HDD. And in a firewall/appliance, the benefits from no moving parts/lower power/heat/noise is hard to ignore. >> As for Nano, I thought it mounted almost everything as RO and only >> changed settings to write down settings changes, and RRD databases etc >> on reboots? > > I think I’ve already responded to this. > > nano is a > 10 year old “solution” to the problems that existed at the time. > http://markmail.org/message/rxe4xfpmdwva7q3e > > That doesn’t mean it’s a bad solution, but though it’s author is a brilliant > individual, he obviously didn’t envision SSD in 2004. Are you saying the "nano" release only covers the boot-slices? I thought the nano/embedded versions also write less to the disk. I don't have a full install handy to check, but the nano install definitely mounts the drive RO, and all runtime stuff (/var, /tmp) is run out of RAM disks. Regards, -Jeppe _______________________________________________ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
