Re: PCI-e SSD card as primary disk

2014-03-10 Thread Jan Stary
On Mar 10 01:29:06, s...@spacehopper.org wrote:
> On 2014-03-09, Jan Stary  wrote:
> > I run current/amd64 on this Atom-based box (see dmesg below)
> > http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/motherboards/desktop-motherboards/desktop-board-di510mo.html
> > The system is installed onto a 16GB SDHC Sandisk card
> > which is plugged into this cardreader
> > http://www.hwtools.net/cardreader/MR04.html
> > which is plugged into the PCI-e socket of the board.
> > That leaves the two SATA connections to be used
> > by two big SATA disks for data and backup.
> >
> > I am generally happy with it, but occasionally it gets slow,
> > e.g. with a handful of firefox tabs. I see a lot of disk
> > activity on the sd2 disk (the system disk), where $HOME is.
> > It akes me think that my system would be generally more
> > responsive if this was faster.
> >
> > Does anybody use a PCI-e SSD successfully. Like e.g. this one?
> > http://dx.com/p/toshiba-msata-1-8-ssd-solid-state-disk-32gb-268690#.Uxx2-BEo81I
> > Do people use any other kind of storage successfully
> > in the PCI-e socketof this board?
> 
> That is an mSATA SSD, not a PCIe / miniPCIe SSD.
> 
> Some machines (mostly laptops) have a slot which can take either mSATA
> or miniPCIe, I do this on my X220, but a standard miniPCIe slot will not
> work with an mSATA SSD (even if it physically fits).

Thank you for the correction.
So, what (mini)PCIe SSDs do people succesfully use?

Jan



Re: PCI-e SSD card as primary disk

2014-03-09 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2014-03-09, Jan Stary  wrote:
> I run current/amd64 on this Atom-based box (see dmesg below)
> http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/motherboards/desktop-motherboards/desktop-board-di510mo.html
> The system is installed onto a 16GB SDHC Sandisk card
> which is plugged into this cardreader
> http://www.hwtools.net/cardreader/MR04.html
> which is plugged into the PCI-e socket of the board.
> That leaves the two SATA connections to be used
> by two big SATA disks for data and backup.
>
> I am generally happy with it, but occasionally it gets slow,
> e.g. with a handful of firefox tabs. I see a lot of disk
> activity on the sd2 disk (the system disk), where $HOME is.
> It akes me think that my system would be generally more
> responsive if this was faster.
>
> Does anybody use a PCI-e SSD successfully. Like e.g. this one?
> http://dx.com/p/toshiba-msata-1-8-ssd-solid-state-disk-32gb-268690#.Uxx2-BEo81I
> Do people use any other kind of storage successfully
> in the PCI-e socketof this board?

That is an mSATA SSD, not a PCIe / miniPCIe SSD.

Some machines (mostly laptops) have a slot which can take either mSATA
or miniPCIe, I do this on my X220, but a standard miniPCIe slot will not
work with an mSATA SSD (even if it physically fits).



PCI-e SSD card as primary disk

2014-03-09 Thread Jan Stary
I run current/amd64 on this Atom-based box (see dmesg below)
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/motherboards/desktop-motherboards/desktop-board-di510mo.html
The system is installed onto a 16GB SDHC Sandisk card
which is plugged into this cardreader
http://www.hwtools.net/cardreader/MR04.html
which is plugged into the PCI-e socket of the board.
That leaves the two SATA connections to be used
by two big SATA disks for data and backup.

I am generally happy with it, but occasionally it gets slow,
e.g. with a handful of firefox tabs. I see a lot of disk
activity on the sd2 disk (the system disk), where $HOME is.
It akes me think that my system would be generally more
responsive if this was faster.

Does anybody use a PCI-e SSD successfully. Like e.g. this one?
http://dx.com/p/toshiba-msata-1-8-ssd-solid-state-disk-32gb-268690#.Uxx2-BEo81I
Do people use any other kind of storage successfully
in the PCI-e socketof this board?

Jan

OpenBSD 5.5 (GENERIC.MP) #313: Mon Mar  3 17:12:14 MST 2014
dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
RTC BIOS diagnostic error 80
real mem = 1038864384 (990MB)
avail mem = 1002651648 (956MB)
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.5 @ 0xe4410 (25 entries)
bios0: vendor Intel Corp. version "MOPNV10J.86A.0175.2010.0308.0620" date 
03/08/2010
bios0: Intel Corporation D510MO
acpi0 at bios0: rev 2
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acpi0: tables DSDT FACP APIC MCFG HPET SSDT
acpi0: wakeup devices SLPB(S4) PS2M(S4) PS2K(S4) UAR1(S4) UAR2(S4) P32_(S4) 
ILAN(S4) PEX0(S4) PEX1(S4) PEX2(S4) PEX3(S4) UHC1(S3) UHC2(S3) UHC3(S3) 
UHC4(S3) EHCI(S3) [...]
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cpu0: 
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cpu0: 512KB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache
cpu0: smt 0, core 0, package 0
mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support, 7 var ranges, 88 fixed ranges
cpu0: apic clock running at 166MHz
cpu0: mwait min=64, max=64, C-substates=0.1.0.0.0, IBE
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cpu1: 
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cpu1: 512KB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache
cpu1: smt 1, core 0, package 0
cpu2 at mainbus0: apid 2 (application processor)
cpu2: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D510 @ 1.66GHz, 1666.69 MHz
cpu2: 
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cpu2: 512KB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache
cpu2: smt 0, core 1, package 0
cpu3 at mainbus0: apid 3 (application processor)
cpu3: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D510 @ 1.66GHz, 1666.69 MHz
cpu3: 
FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE,SSE3,DTES64,MWAIT,DS-CPL,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,MOVBE,NXE,LONG,LAHF,PERF
cpu3: 512KB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache
cpu3: smt 1, core 1, package 0
ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 8 pa 0xfec0, version 20, 24 pins
ioapic0: misconfigured as apic 0, remapped to apid 8
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acpiprt5 at acpi0: bus 4 (PEX3)
acpicpu0 at acpi0: C1, PSS
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acpibtn0 at acpi0: SLPB
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agp0 at intagp0: aperture at 0xe000, size 0x1000
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drm0 at inteldrm0
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wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (std, vt100 emulation)
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pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
re0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Realtek 8168" rev 0x03: RTL8168D/8111D (0x2800), 
msi, address 00:27:0e:07:09:9f
rgephy0 at re0 phy 7: RTL8169S/8110S PHY, rev. 2
ppb1 at pci0 dev 28 function 1 "Intel 82801GB PCIE" rev 0x01: msi
pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
ppb2 at pci0 dev 28 function 2 "Intel 82801GB PCIE" rev 0x01: msi
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pci4 at ppb3 bus 4
uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x01: apic 8 int 23
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uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x01: apic 8 int 18
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