On Donnerstag 19 November 2009, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Greets, gentoo-users, > I hope not to bring up some boring ricer-topic ;-) > > I am thinking of getting one of those shiny new SSDs for my main > workstation. Not that I really *need* it, my box is performing well, I > admit that I am curious and somehow childish ... some way of getting > myself a christmas present or something like that ... > > anyway > > Although I read of Intel's various firmware-problems with their SSDs, I > tend to buy one of their 80GB X25-M G2 Postville SSDs. > > I definitely *know* that I will shake my head a few months later at how > I could spend that much money for those few and slow gigs of ssd ... but > ... (think 100$ for 128MB usb-stick ... you know ...) > > I think of using that ssd for my gentoo-os-partition(s) and I wonder if > one of you is already doing that. And I would like to hear of any > problems/blockers/sensations this brings. > > Thanks for any infos, I'd be happy to hear whatever your experience is ... > > Stefan >
since ssds don't like write/erase cycles you should only put your system on the ssd. Everything else, PORTDIR, PKGDIR, /var, /tmp, /usr/tmp and /usr/src should be on a harddisk.
