I have found ubuntu to be far and away the easiest to install on multiple strange hardware. No idea why. Win7 is garbage unless you have piles of oem cd with drivers. Same with vista. Bound to be open source support for SSD.
clay 1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green 1972 220D - Gump - She is green, simple and ran 1995 E300D - Cleo - Used by the Queen of Denial POS 1987 SDL - Beware Nigerian Scammers On Jul 1, 2012, at 12:49 PM, Alex Chamberlain wrote: > On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Jim Cathey <j...@windwireless.net> wrote: >> Flash, IIRC, degrades to something like 1/10 of initial write speed, >> or even worse, over the rated life span. > > How do I determine the rated life span? > > Dave Walton wrote: >> If speed is paramount, buy a larger drive, format it to a lower capacity, >> and run the manufacturer's utility to add the extra space into the wear >> leveling cache. That will speed up writes. > > Are these utilities something you run in Windows to set firmware > parameters on the drive? > > This machine will be running Linux exclusively, although I guess I > could install Windows on it once if I have to and then wipe it off. > > Googling "Linux SSD install" I see lots of information for how to > tweak fstab, boot loader parameters, and other stuff to maximize SSD > perfomance and longevity. Also the laptop has 4 Gb of RAM, so I think > I can get away without a swap partition. Any other suggestions > (besides that OCZ is a decent brand---thanks, Dave)? > > Alex > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
