(OT) Questions About SSDs for a Laptop

[Nadim Hoque]

I am currently use my ssd as the full drive on my laptop. A couple of
things you need to know and the biggest one is to make sure that you are
doing TRIM on all of the partitions (I think you add "disgard" to the
options portions for the partitions in /etc/fstab). Regarding stability and
reliability SSD's have come a long way and other then enabling TRIM on the
drive they pretty much are the "same" as regular ssd's. Unless you are
writing terrabytes of information per day SSD's will pretty much last just
as long as platter hdd. I agree with David and see if you can do a hybrid
drive. I have no experience with them as David has but from what I heard
hybrid drives are great. Speaking of hybrid drives, maybe purchase a
smaller ssd make it your root partition and use a platter hdd for your
home. That way you can get the best of both worlds. Keep in mind that most
of your files are not per say the bottle neck of your application loading
(ie if you are opening up your document file, the loading of the file is
not as bad as loading libre office itself). One thing to note with hybrid
drives is to make sure that the height of them will be compatible. I have a
thinkpad x230 and it will not support the standard height of 9mm.


On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
wrote:

> I am looking at a new Linux laptop, and I have the option of a mSata SSD
> drive or a conventional drive. I am considering a 1 TB Samsung 840 EVO
> mSata SSD for the OS and all my partitions.
>
> 1. Are there any reasons not to use a SSD for the full disk, as opposed to
> just for the OS? Other than saving money, as a small SSD would cost a lot
> less!
>
> 2. I have seen recommendations on the net to backup the drive to a
> spinning drive. The laptop has a couple of bays, so I could put a back up
> drive in one of the bays. Does this make sense, or have SSDs matured enough
> that they will last like a spinning drive?
>
> 3. Anything else I should be aware of when moving to the world of SSDs?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
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