[svlug] SSD and workstation

[Dwight Hubbard]

Even commercial grade SSDs slow down with use and have a bad habit of failing in unpredictable ways.  On a laptop I'd use noatime and make sure directories that have frequent writes of ephemeral data are mounted tmpfs instead of being on the ssd.



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> From: Jesse Monroy <jesse650 at gmail.com>
>To: Marco Walther <marco at sonic.net> 
>Cc: svlug at lists.svlug.org 
>Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2012 11:12 PM
>Subject: Re: [svlug] SSD and workstation
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>On 12/16/12, Marco Walther <marco at sonic.net> wrote:
>> On 12/16/2012 06:44 PM, Jesse Monroy wrote:
>>> HI Ivan,
>>> it seems you suggested that you would use the SSD as read-only.
>>> It is the preferred way of using SSD.
>> I don't know if that's true any more (or if it ever was). I don't think
>> you would wear out a even a `consumer grade' SSD in a reasonable time
>> frame. noatime is probably a good idea (for any workstation/laptop/...
>> were you don't really are about the access times) but otherwise I would
>> use the SSD wre you expect the most accesses.
>>
>You don't need to take my word for it. Ask Admins that
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>
>Jesse
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