[ML-General] advice sought on SSD's

[Kirk D Mccann]

Also remember if you use a ram disk when you reboot/shutdown/lose power the
data on the ram disk will be gone.  So you will want to backup what is on
the ram drive if you dont want to lose it.

-Kirk

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Charles Moye <chazzm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just make sure you've got a nice recent kernel, or you disable TRIM on
> that Samsung SSD
>
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/3a58s0/dont_use_linux_on_samsung_ssds/
>
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 6:44 AM, Kirk D Mccann <kirk.mccann at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> /dev/shm is a ram disk that exists on every Linux instance that I know of.
>> On Mar 8, 2016 6:10 AM, "david" <ainut at knology.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Excellent idea!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 03/08/2016 06:08 AM, Kirk D Mccann wrote:
>>>
>>> You could always use a ram disk for anything that is going to thrash the
>>> disk just make sure to occasionally copy the data to permanent storage.
>>> On Mar 7, 2016 8:10 PM, "david" < <ainut at knology.net>ainut at knology.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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>
>>>>> 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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