On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 11:43:00PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > Stan Hoeppener gave you good advice. Take it. > > Hobbyists waste a lot of time tweaking systems because that's their > hobby. Any SSD is going to be faster than your old HD. And unless > your life is measured in milliseconds, you won't be able to tell the > difference between them for anything you're likely to do. There are > some applications where one make a difference over another but then > you wouldn't be making the purchasing decision - your IT staff > would. > > The technology is constantly improving so get a recent model - not > something from three years ago. Get one that is as fast as your SATA > ports. Get one that is large enough to hold everything but your > /home folders unless you are independently wealthy. > > Enjoy the speed. Don't fret over whether it's setup to squeeze out > the ultimate performance.
Perhaps I was misunderstood. I was never fretting milliseconds. I wasn't too concerned with speed either. The 7200rpm spinning disk was fine. The drive started to fail. I use the laptop constantly on a New York City ambulance. Partners have dropped my bag (with laptop inside) while it was still hibernating. I've hit big bumps going to calls while the machine was still hibernating. I went SSD to obviate all that disk trauma. But this being new tech, and with new tech in Linux needing manual setup and tweaking on occasion, I thought I'd ask the list to make sure I wasn't overlooking something obvious. My priority is longevity of the SSD and data integrity. So I took Stan's advice and I'm only going to worry about reading the rsync man page and doing more regular backups of /home. Thanks again to all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120709133204.GA3929@phobos
