2009/11/5 Jean-Frangois SIMON <jfsimon1...@gmail.com>: > Hello, > Is there any particular problem with installing OpenBSD on a SSD HD ? I > once could on one machine but on my actual machine it simply does'nt work. > After a while, the SSD disk becomes like overloaded and unavailable to > continue the installing process of 4.6. > Regards > >
Hi Jean-Francios, Is this a used SSD? That happens with used ones because they end up doing twice the work - once to erase the used block and again to actually write the block (and several blocks around them, AAMOF). If you have a "secure erase" option available, use it. This will restore the data blocks to an unused state, and restore full speed again. HTH 2009/11/5 STeve Andre' <and...@msu.edu> >But I'm not at all eager to actually use them just yet. Look for the >goofs Intel has had with them. How long will they last, and what is >the failure mode like? More often than not a spinning disk will give >notice of impending death with a few bad spots before The End. But >what of an SSD? By its very nature I could see an address line going, >leaving a very weird pattern of unaffected data. I'd say SMART would answer the call by sending DANGER WILL ROBINSON messages to the OS - it would be up to the OS to intercept these messages and inform the sysadmin, however. My $0.02. -- Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict - Oh, why does everything I whip leave me?
