On Thursday, August 28, 2014 10:54:25 PM Joseph wrote: > No, I wouldn't get 1TB SSD too expensive but something like 300GB I might > consider it. Are they worth the investment? What brand do you have and how > long?
Please do NOT top-post. Currently, from what I found out, good brands are: Intel, Samsung and Crucial. Do check on how they perform though, for my usage (Extensive use of VMs), the Samsung EVOs were not suitable as the performance can drop with large writes. (doesn't help when taking a full snapshot, eg. with memory-dump, of a VM with a lot of memory) But for most people, the EVOs are good. The Samsung Pro does not have this, but costs more. The Crucial has, according to some reviews, a cleaner shutdown where any outstanding writes during shutdown are actually committed to disk. I am not convinced I will ever notice it either way though. Intel has good reviews and good performance. For any model you are considering, check the reviews online as the technology behind SSDs is still changing and the firmware and chips keep changing as well. A good brand now, might be a bad one tomorrow. For reference, I use the following in my laptop: # smartctl -a /dev/sda | grep "Device Model" Device Model: INTEL SSDMCEAC120B3 # smartctl -a /dev/sdb | grep "Device Model" Device Model: Crucial_CT1024M550SSD1 -- Joost > -- > Joseph > > On 08/29/14 06:11, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >On 29/08/2014 00:56, Joseph wrote: > >> So there seems to be a pattern :-/ > >> How about SSD they are not that much more? Will it withstand Gentoo > >> compilations :-) ? > > > >No. There is not a pattern. Two guys used drives for 5 years and then > >they failed. > > > >5 years? Wow. That's double what you can reasonably expect, you got good > >service. > > > >SSDs are much more expensive than spinning disks, 1TB will cost a > >fortune. But they work in Gentoo very well - I'm on my second and this > >one is 256G, still runs as fast as the day I got it. > > > >> -- > >> Joseph > >> > >> On 08/28/14 22:46, Mick wrote: > >>> On Thursday 28 Aug 2014 21:45:10 Joseph wrote: > >>>> I need to select 500GB or 1TB infernal 2.5in drive, any recommendation > >>>> (reliability) of the brand. My current WD 320GB fail after 5-years. > >>> > >>> Interesting ... mine also failed catastrophically a couple of months > >>> ago after > >>> around 5 years of continuous use. > >>> > >>> Which reminds me to run a backup on my Seagate: > >>> > >>> Model Family: Seagate Momentus 7200.4 > >>> Device Model: ST9500420ASG > >>> > >>> I'm not sure how much anecdotal reports on reliable drives actually hold > >>> water, unless we're talking about an epidemic of failures like I seem to > >>> recall Dell's Seagate drives experienced a few years ago. > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Regards, > >>> Mick
