Pasi Oja-Nisula: > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> You might want to read Ted T'so's blog entries regarding SSDs: >> http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/category/computers/ssd/ > > This is where the pain starts. I started looking at this and suddenly I > was up to my neck in partition boundary alignment calculations. But > I guess I finally managed to get them right. Probably wouldn't have > made a difference even if I had skipped that part.
I skipped the alignment part completely and just went with the defaults
(from July 2009). I don't have the feeling that this imposes a
performance penalty like what is reported with the new 4k hard disks.
But I didn't test that.
> So far so good. Bigger programs like OpenOffice and the like start
> noticeably quicker, but the difference is not as big as I thought. I'll
> see how the system feels once I get home transferred also.
What about boot time? My laptop (Thinkpad X200) boots up in less than
ten senconds (boot manager to GDM).
J.
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