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Message: 5 Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:58:01 -0500 From: Juan Diego Tasc?n<juantascon@gmail.com> To: General Discusson about Arch Linux<arch-general@archlinux.org> Subject: [arch-general] ssd Message-ID: <CAA0N71U-9WC1vh4j0_YZjEOCJYrQHHgJUg_2vjCrBc54tQ7aLQ@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Good day,
I just got a new laptop with a 25Gb ssd and I was wondering which would be best if putting my home directory (minus music and videos) there or and arch install (minus pacman pkg cache). I read the ssd related article in the wiki and even though it mentions some optimizations and considerations it doesn't mention anything regarding this issue.
Thanks
Hi, IMO you should put the arch install there. Because of the limited amount of writes a cell can handle, you typically want the data on your SSD not to change very much over time. Since its greater reading speed can improve on the starting time of larger applications, it is (in my understanding) recommended for an SSD to contain mostly applications and/or system files. This should also make your computer boot faster. Good luck on choosing and setting up your system, Gijs
I just got a new laptop with a 25Gb ssd and I was wondering which would be best if putting my home directory (minus music and videos) there or and arch install (minus pacman pkg cache). I read the ssd related article in the wiki and even though it mentions some optimizations and considerations it doesn't mention anything regarding this issue.
Realistically, you're going to want to stick as much data that's read/written as you can on your SSD - one of the big things SSDs excel at is random reading and writing, and even consumer SSDs today have write lifes that'll generally exceed the life of the host hardware (heck, that's been true for a long while, but "optimizers" gonna "optimize"). Just remember to look at TRIM support and the pros/cons of mounting with discard vs running a scheduled fstrim; I wouldn't suggest doing things like disabling the journal. Media and other such large-sequential-io type stuff can still go on a separate HD, of course. Question though: where in the heck did you get a 25 GB SSD in a new laptop in this day and age - or was it 256?
On 10/31/12 at 03:28pm, Zeke Sulastin wrote:
Question though: where in the heck did you get a 25 GB SSD in a new laptop in this day and age - or was it 256?
It was probably installed as a SSD cache. My computer had an option for a 16GB SSD cache for some $50, which I thought was rediculous. So I bought my own mSATA and it is amazing. I have seen reports of instances where some systems will not actualyl let you boot from the mSATA port though. So make sure your bios will allow you to do that. Though I guess if it doesn't your mind will be made up for you. -- Curtis Shimamoto sugar.and.scruffy@gmail.com
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Curtis Shimamoto
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Gijs Schroder
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Zeke Sulastin