2013/7/19 Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> > > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 03:22:11 -0500, Dale wrote: >> >>>>> Do you really want to put /home on a SSD? >>>> >>>> Why not? >>>> >>>> /home is the most frequently-read directory on most systems, and SSD >>>> is ideal for that. >>>> >>>> If you are concerned about wear-levelling, /home is not the danger >>>> point >>> >>> Interesting. I'm not sure I would want mine on a SSD even if it would >>> fit on one. The only part that might help would be my .kde >>> and .mozilla directory. >> >> SSDs are not like USB flash drives, and it's been years since I managed >> to wear one of those out (mainly due to a kernel bug). They have >> lifetimes similar to spinny disks these days. >> >> > > Now I really feel about better getting one. That was my concern and reason > for the question. I'm sure /home gets its share of reads and writes and was > thinking the writes would cause a problem over time. Maybe they are better > now than they was a while back. > > Thanks for the update. > > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > -- > I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how > you interpreted my words! > >
I came across the topic of SSD writes when setting up my laptop with an ssd and the question, is a tmpfs vor /var/tmp/portage or swapfile on SSD a good idea? At some point I found this at ArchWiki page about SSDs[1], but I don't know how up to date or correct this is. "A 32GB SSD with a mediocre 10x write amplification factor, a standard 10000 write/erase cycle, and 10GB of data written per day, would get an 8 years life expectancy. It gets better with bigger SSDs and modern controllers with less write amplification." Now I have /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs and a swapfile on the SSD, but I think the drive will last for the next years so i don't have to worry much about it. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Solid_State_Drives -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards Randolph Maaßen
