Re: OpenBSD 5.1 SSD

2012-04-14 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2012-04-14, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2012, Laurence Rochfort wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm considering purchasing a domestic SSD for my laptop. >> >> Does OpenBSD 5.1 support SSDs and the TRIM command if needed? > > It supports SSD drives like any other drive, but no special features. >

Re: OpenBSD 5.1 SSD

2012-04-14 Thread Laurence Rochfort
Thank you everybody. I don't really use much space locally as my videos etc are on the network. I'll leave some space unpartitioned and let garbage collection do the rest. Many thanks, Laurence On Apr 15, 2012 12:09 AM, "Alexander Hall" wrote: > On 04/14/12 20:38, Laurence Rochfort wrote: > >>

Re: OpenBSD 5.1 SSD

2012-04-14 Thread Alexander Hall
On 04/14/12 20:38, Laurence Rochfort wrote: Hi, I'm considering purchasing a domestic SSD for my laptop. Does OpenBSD 5.1 support SSDs and the TRIM command if needed? As already said; yes and no, respectively. It matters little though, but if you're really concerned about the missing TRIM su

Re: OpenBSD 5.1 SSD

2012-04-14 Thread Andres Perera
doesn't support trim. i remember reading somewhere, maybe a freebsd mailing list, that calculating when to do trim is tricky because it can only work on a specific width On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Laurence Rochfort wrote: > Hi, > > I'm considering purchasing a domestic SSD for my laptop. >

Re: OpenBSD 5.1 SSD

2012-04-14 Thread Ted Unangst
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012, Laurence Rochfort wrote: > Hi, > > I'm considering purchasing a domestic SSD for my laptop. > > Does OpenBSD 5.1 support SSDs and the TRIM command if needed? It supports SSD drives like any other drive, but no special features. Specifically, there's no TRIM support.

OpenBSD 5.1 SSD

2012-04-14 Thread Laurence Rochfort
Hi, I'm considering purchasing a domestic SSD for my laptop. Does OpenBSD 5.1 support SSDs and the TRIM command if needed? Regards, Laurence Rochfort