On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 02:18:50PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > On Wednesday, October 23, 2013 12:04:17 John Mort wrote: > > Thanks Matthias. From the lack of response I'm guessing no one has > > experience with SSHD yet. I might look at an OS SSD for linux, and a HDD > > for linux storage, and will probably just stick with a small HDD for > > windows since that's only used for gaming and the games I play (FPS & RTS) > > don't load new maps or areas often enough to make it worth the expense. > > In the computer I built for my Dad I used an SSD for the OS (this is my first > use of an SSD), but put the /home directory/partiton on a HDD. Some people > go > through the effort of making sure that the logs go to the HDD insted of the > SSD, but for a Desktop box there aren't a lot of these so I didn't bother; > we'll see how long that lasts. [Linus Torvalds recently had the SSD drive he > was using for Linux development up and quit completely on him, and I didn't > hear if he was ever able to get any data off that drive after the failure.] > > I've never used a SSHD drive yet.
As I recall, hybrid drives require linux kernel support to move frequently-used blocks to the hybrid partition, and perform a raid-ish overlay on the block io system. This was added relatively recently, but maybe more recently than many distributions. -m --
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