Got my new 256GB SSD yesterday.
Since I was moving from a larger drive to a smaller one this one made me a
bit more nervous that other hard drive replacements.
I used System Rescue CD to do all the work with a combination of gparted
and lvm tools. I'm not sure if anyone is interested in the detai
Rick Stevens wrote:
>> SSDs are fast, but when they die, it's typically sudden, with no
>> warning, catastrophic and irrecoverable.
Tom Horsley:
> You mean just like every "normal" hard disk I've ever had die? (OK,
> one did get smart errors first, but all the others just went kaput
> with no warn
On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 09:44:31 -0700
Rick Stevens wrote:
> SSDs are fast, but when
> they die, it's typically sudden, with no warning, catastrophic and
> irrecoverable.
You mean just like every "normal" hard disk I've ever had die? (OK,
one did get smart errors first, but all the others just went ka
On 09/04/2015 01:56 PM, Pete Travis wrote:
On Sep 4, 2015 3:14 PM, "Richard Shaw" mailto:hobbes1...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I have two drives in my desktop computer, a 500GB for / and /var
which is failing, and a 1TB drive for /home and swap.
>
> Cost is definitely an issue so I have narrowed
On 09/05/2015 11:59 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
Finally, I also recommend an SSD for your system drive. For /var, not so
important, but the OS it is fantastic.
Having /var (more precisely /var/lib/mock and /var/cache/mock) on SSD is
important for mock. It speeds up mock-building rpms significan
On 05Sep2015 07:13, Richard Shaw wrote:
On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 10:32 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
My BackupPC folder is about 190GB (backs up my home from the other drive,
yes, if the whole system goes I'm screwed but at least the data is on two
different drives; my HTPC, and my wife's laptop). Th
On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 10:32 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
> I don't know, if this would be an option to you, but if I were you, I'd
> consider a smaller SSD in combination with a bigger HDD.
>
> Somewhat simplified, my partition scheme is /home on HDD and all the rest
> (including /var) on SDD. Fr
On 09/04/2015 10:56 PM, Pete Travis wrote:
On Sep 4, 2015 3:14 PM, "Richard Shaw" mailto:hobbes1...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I have two drives in my desktop computer, a 500GB for / and /var
which is failing, and a 1TB drive for /home and swap.
>
> Cost is definitely an issue so I have narrowed
On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Michael Hennebry <
henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Sep 2015, Richard Shaw wrote:
>
> I have two drives in my desktop computer, a 500GB for / and /var which is
>> failing, and a 1TB drive for /home and swap.
>>
>> Cost is definitely an issue so I h
On Fri, 4 Sep 2015, Richard Shaw wrote:
I have two drives in my desktop computer, a 500GB for / and /var which is
failing, and a 1TB drive for /home and swap.
Cost is definitely an issue so I have narrowed my options down to a 1TB
drive for about $53 or a 256MB SSD for about $86.
Obviously the
On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Pete Travis wrote:
> Absolutely get a *quality* SSD. I've had a Samsung 830 since they were
> new and use mock and got and more on a frequent basis, with no ill
> effects. I've had three spinning drives fail during that time, with varied
> uses ; a fourth is now
On Sep 4, 2015 3:14 PM, "Richard Shaw" wrote:
>
> I have two drives in my desktop computer, a 500GB for / and /var which is
failing, and a 1TB drive for /home and swap.
>
> Cost is definitely an issue so I have narrowed my options down to a 1TB
drive for about $53 or a 256MB SSD for about $86.
>
>
I have two drives in my desktop computer, a 500GB for / and /var which is
failing, and a 1TB drive for /home and swap.
Cost is definitely an issue so I have narrowed my options down to a 1TB
drive for about $53 or a 256MB SSD for about $86.
Obviously the SSD is about half the size of my current f
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