So, shall we stop using RAIDs then because your drives still alive then?
The question is to use tmpfs for /var/tmp/portage or not. I think yes without doubt because you increase the lifespam of your drive. Maybe 1 month, 2, 5 whatever. It will last more time that if you don't do.
Also you have to make it properly, without swapping to disk. But I have the opinion that if you can use it you should use it.
El 24/7/25 a las 20:20, Immolo escribió:
And this changes what I said how?On Thu, 24 Jul 2025, 19:17 Javier Martinez, <tazok....@gmail.com <mailto:tazok....@gmail.com>> wrote:El 24/7/25 a las 19:56, Immolo escribió: > > If you don't use RAM as tmpfs maybe your harddisk will live 5 years, > > I must have some defective drives or something as my IDE drives from the > 90s are still going..... > > As for nvmes, I brought mine in 2017 and is currently showing `Data > Units Written : 192018934 (98.31 TB)` > I don't do anything too intense, just a weekly emptyree rebuild of world > using the latest GCC snapshot to help track early bugs. > > If you are worried about earlier SSDs then my little 60GB SSD I bought > in 2008 is also doing fine as a Gentoo machine rootfs. > > If you have any other questions about hardware life cycles then please > free to ask. > > immolo IDE are mechanicals units, his lifespan depends entirely of mechanics components, SSD not. It can be a cuestion of luck, but I have lost a lot of drives, most of them standard mechanics IDE,SATA drives. Lastly one SEAGATE of two TB mechanic bought at the same time that one SSD of 512GB died. The SSD not yet, but the SEAGATE had a lot more use than the other. I protected this SSD from writings but as you can see: Data Units Read: 78.061.867 [39,9 TB] Data Units Written: 35.723.270 [18,2 TB] It has his work done If you protect your drives his lifespans will get increased. But you have to take care of them
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