[ML-General] advice sought on SSD's

[david]

Thanks, Hunter.  That sounds like good advice.

New question, though.  I have read of some concerns about booting on the 
SSD's.  Is this truly an issue?  Can't I just use gparted or equivalent 
to copy my hard disk stuff onto the SSD with a tool that handles 
automagic partitioning and let 'er rip?  Or am i missing something?  If 
I could make the current boot disk "read-only" I would while doing these 
tests.

I got dazzled by the prospect of nearly instant booting...

David



On 03/07/2016 07:34 PM, Hunter Fuller wrote:
> My advice:
>   - Turn off swap.
>   - Install smartmontools and/or GSmartControl and configure them to
> tell you when your disk is about to die. Check the utilities manually
> if paranoid.
>   - Don't worry about anything else.
> --
> Hunter Fuller
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 6:57 PM, david <ainut at knology.net> wrote:
>> No, they have nothing to do with venereal diseases.
>>
>> For Debian Jessie on AMD64 platforms:
>> I just spent some big bucks (for me) on a 500 GB SSD (Samsung Evo) and
>> wondered what your opinion is on their lifetime?  Should I force things that
>> thrash the disks a lot (like Folding at home and maybe swap) onto a rotating
>> platter?  Swap is hardly used since I have 16 Gb core but FAH thrashes the
>> hard drive *all* the time; one can hear it constantly.  I've not installed
>> the SSD yet.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David M.
>>
>>
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