On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 12:54 AM, Joseph <syscon...@gmail.com> 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? >
SSDs improve performance significantly, but as you point out they are quite expensive. If you use one you should consider using a filesystem optimized for flash. If you're talking about a laptop then your options are going to be limited, since they're typically not overflowing with drive bays. However, for a desktop/server I would recommend a small SSD for the OS and selected other files, and spinning disks for general storage. I have a 64GB SSD which is fairly inexpensive and use it for my root, but home and selected directories out of var are on spinning disk. So, I can have 7TB of disk space and keep the cost reasonably low, and get almost the same benefit out of having the most-frequently-accessed files on SSD. I use RAID for the spinning disks, and do daily backups of the SSD - little of importance on the SSD changes all that often anyway and since it is only 64GB a restore will go quickly. I actually mount my browser cache, /var/tmp, and /usr/portage on tmpfs. Distfiles and pkgdir are on the spinning disks. If the /usr move ever becomes an option on Gentoo then it would get even simpler - stick /usr on the SSD. Rich
