On 1 August 2011, at 17:29, Paul Hartman wrote:
> ...
> You can also buy a hybrid hard drive, it is a traditional HDD with SSD
> built-in for caching. That is transparent to the operating system.
I looked at these earlier this year. They seem a good compromise of price vs
performance.
They're f
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
wrote:
> Am Sonntag 31 Juli 2011, 19:11:06 schrieb Michael Mol:
>
>> Yet would potentially run afoul of the SSD's write block resolution.
>> And, of course, having the journal fail out from under me would be a
>> fair bit worse than the kernel p
Am Sonntag 31 Juli 2011, 19:11:06 schrieb Michael Mol:
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
>
> wrote:
> > Am Sonntag 31 Juli 2011, 10:44:28 schrieb Michael Mol:
> >> While I take your point about write-cycle limitations, and I would
> >> *assume* you're familiar with the vario
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Paul Hartman
wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
>> Something that's been tickling my brain for a couple years now, and
>> you guys are probably the right ones to ask.
>>
>> I haven't dropped coin for an SSD (yet), but I was wondering abou
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
> Something that's been tickling my brain for a couple years now, and
> you guys are probably the right ones to ask.
>
> I haven't dropped coin for an SSD (yet), but I was wondering about
> uses for them beyond using them for / or /home.
>
> 1) W
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
wrote:
> Am Sonntag 31 Juli 2011, 10:44:28 schrieb Michael Mol:
>> While I take your point about write-cycle limitations, and I would
>> *assume* you're familiar with the various improvements on
>> wear-leveling technique that have happened ove
Am Sonntag 31 Juli 2011, 10:44:28 schrieb Michael Mol:
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann
>
> wrote:
> > On Friday 29 July 2011 14:18:41 Michael Mol wrote:
> >> Something that's been tickling my brain for a couple years now, and
> >> you guys are probably the right ones to a
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
no, /var/tmp is very not important from a performance point of view - with the
exception of /var/tmp/portage - and that is a candidate for tempfs.
Actually I recently tested that theory and it was faster when
/var/tmp/portage was on a hard drive instead of tmp
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann
wrote:
> On Friday 29 July 2011 14:18:41 Michael Mol wrote:
>> Something that's been tickling my brain for a couple years now, and
>> you guys are probably the right ones to ask.
>>
>> I haven't dropped coin for an SSD (yet), but I was wonderi
On Friday 29 July 2011 14:18:41 Michael Mol wrote:
> Something that's been tickling my brain for a couple years now, and
> you guys are probably the right ones to ask.
>
> I haven't dropped coin for an SSD (yet), but I was wondering about
> uses for them beyond using them for / or /home.
>
> 1) W
Am 29.07.2011 20:18, schrieb Michael Mol:
> Something that's been tickling my brain for a couple years now, and
> you guys are probably the right ones to ask.
>
> I haven't dropped coin for an SSD (yet), but I was wondering about
> uses for them beyond using them for / or /home.
>
> 1) What about
Something that's been tickling my brain for a couple years now, and
you guys are probably the right ones to ask.
I haven't dropped coin for an SSD (yet), but I was wondering about
uses for them beyond using them for / or /home.
1) What about sitting swap (partition, file, whatever) on the SSD?
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