Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo on ssds? intel anyone?

2009-12-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Holger Hoffstaette schrieb: Been using one in my day-to-day workstation under both Windows and Gentoo (with ext4). Did you use any non-default settings when formatting? As Intel-SSDs are back on stock here I have ordered one and I am starting to plan how to reorganize things. I read

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo on ssds? intel anyone?

2009-11-20 Thread Remy Blank
Holger Hoffstaette wrote: After 5 minutes you will fight anyone who would try to take it away again to the death. Seconded. I moved a normal HD install to a 160GB G2, and, well, you just don't imagine how much your day-to-day work is IO bound. -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo on ssds? intel anyone?

2009-11-20 Thread James
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerarmin at googlemail.com writes: since ssds don't like write/erase cycles you should only put your system on the ssd. Everything else, PORTDIR, PKGDIR, /var, /tmp, /usr/tmp and /usr/src should be on a harddisk. I'd be curious to see a complete fstab with an SSD;

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo on ssds? intel anyone?

2009-11-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 8:38 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerarmin at googlemail.com writes: since ssds don't like write/erase cycles you should only put your system on the ssd. Everything else, PORTDIR, PKGDIR, /var, /tmp, /usr/tmp and /usr/src should be

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo on ssds? intel anyone?

2009-11-19 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:47:37 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Although I read of Intel's various firmware-problems with their SSDs, I tend to buy one of their 80GB X25-M G2 Postville SSDs. I have the older 80MB (G1) and a new 160GB G2 for another machine just arrived. The fixed TRIM-enabled