James, Thanks! Any known issues with either Ubuntu or Centex?
Bill Putney - KPTZ Port Townsend, WA On 1/24/12 12:26 PM, James Harrison wrote: > I've tried a few SSDs out at this point. OCZs have failed on me, > Corsairs have been solid and reliable. Intels are also purportedly very > reliable, especially their enterprisey ones, but they're a bundle more > expensive - Corsair are a good middle ground as far as I can tell. > > They certainly run cooler, though not by a lot - I have thermal > monitoring on all my drives (thin-wire thermocouples attached with > thermal compound to the top of the disk) and they're all around 40c, HDD > or SSD, with an ambient case temp of 25c. If you want a big noise > reduction, make sure you replace the stock CPU cooler with something > larger - Zalman do some great aircoolers which run slow and quiet, or > you could go for a Corsair H50, which will keep an i5 dead cold but is > pretty damn quiet. Depends how you feel on closed-loop watercooling... :-) > > I'd go for a SATAIII drive like the Corsair Force 3 at this stage. > They're stupid fast, don't cost much more than the SATAII equivalents > (and if you're buying a motherboard in this day and age it'll have > SATAIII anyway), and are just faster than anything I've ever used > before. I'm currently using a Force 3 as my desktop's primary, a 120GB > disk. I'd put everything except /var/snd on SSDs - what's the downside? > > Just make sure your OS/FS supports TRIM, of course... > > James > > On 24/01/2012 20:08, Bill Putney wrote: >> We're moving to 2.1.2 (at last). I need to upgrade one of our machines >> to a dual core 64 bit machine and I'm thinking of other things we might >> do to improve things. >> >> It seems like the Rivendell client machines would be quite happy on a 60 >> GB drive (except for the /var/snd which lives on the server). 60 GB SSD >> drives are under $100 these days and I'm thinking that the reduction of >> heat and increase in speed might make them good choices for the client >> machines. They should also be quieter than even the quietest spinning >> drive. Reduction in the heat load in the boxes might mean that the smart >> fans will spin a little slower further reducing noise. >> >> I am thinking that if there isn't a downside, making the server >> root/boot drive an SSD too might be a good thing to do just because it >> might be faster and make database look ups quicker. The /var/snd volume >> will stay a big spinning drive RAID-5 (or Raid-Z) array of expensive >> enterprise class drives. >> >> Any thoughts or experiences would be appreciated. Any drives to stay >> away from? Any that have worked well? I saw a comment by one user that >> said that they had an SSD drive that was lightning fast except for the >> twice a day when it took 15 second to do some internal function. Clearly >> that's not something I want to have in the automation system. >> >> Bill Putney - KPTZ Port Townsend, WA >> _______________________________________________ >> Rivendell-dev mailing list >> Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org >> http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
