Re: [pfSense-discussion] full instalation on 4 GB SSD

2007-08-29 Thread Paul M
Eugen Leitl wrote: I was thinking a real 2.5 SSD would have a MTBF comparable to a real hard drive (SanDisk claims 2 Mh MTBF, can't find any such for Hama SSD, which is a bargain at about 100 EUR for 4 GByte, which probably already answers my question). I think that proper ssd units designed

Re: [pfSense-discussion] full instalation on 4 GB SSD

2007-08-29 Thread Rainer Duffner
Paul M wrote: Eugen Leitl wrote: I was thinking a real 2.5 SSD would have a MTBF comparable to a real hard drive (SanDisk claims 2 Mh MTBF, can't find any such for Hama SSD, which is a bargain at about 100 EUR for 4 GByte, which probably already answers my question). I think that

Re: [pfSense-discussion] full instalation on 4 GB SSD

2007-08-28 Thread Gustavo Melo
unsubscribe 2007/8/28, Curtis LaMasters [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Honestly I don't know the answer to your questions but keep this in mind, pfSense loads from disk/flash/cd and then run's completely from RAM. Curtis On 8/28/07, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone running a pfSense full

Re: [pfSense-discussion] full instalation on 4 GB SSD

2007-08-28 Thread Curtis LaMasters
Honestly I don't know the answer to your questions but keep this in mind, pfSense loads from disk/flash/cd and then run's completely from RAM. Curtis On 8/28/07, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone running a pfSense full installation on a 4 GByte SSD drive? Does it a) work b) well?

Re: [pfSense-discussion] full instalation on 4 GB SSD

2007-08-28 Thread Rainer Duffner
Curtis LaMasters wrote: Honestly I don't know the answer to your questions but keep this in mind, pfSense loads from disk/flash/cd and then run's completely from RAM. I think this is true only for the embedded version. The full version (with packages et.al.) will quite probably use disk I/O.

Re: [pfSense-discussion] full instalation on 4 GB SSD

2007-08-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 05:18:24PM +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote: I think this is true only for the embedded version. The full version (with packages et.al.) will quite probably use disk I/O. Yes; IIRC a vanilla CF would be toast after about half a year. I've thought about using a 4 GB