SSDs versus spinning-rust drives

[Ed]

Hi Bill & All

Mount your SSDs with noatime if you aren't running anything that needs
it(some email clients) also check and make sure your SSDs are good to
run trim - some had problems and were listed in kernel as not able to
use trim. That was a while ago, most are fully functional these days.
Depending on if you are willing to add a PCIe card, NVMe adds even
more performance.

Breaking out the high traffic partitions to a HD was a good idea, but
not needed with current SSDs.

Have fun & enjoy old hardware feeling new again.

On Sun, Dec 1, 2019 at 1:13 PM William Lindley <wlindley at wlindley.com> wrote:
>
> Contemplating ordering an SSD as at least the boot and main drive for my PC.
>
> Is that even a good idea?  Are /var, logfiles, and all the other stuff that constantly gets written to disk, still a Really Bad Idea for solid-state memory with its limited write cycle times?
>
> Or is that no longer an issue?
>
> And does anyone really trust SSD to maintain actual documents, family photos, and such over long periods of time?
>
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