Am Montag 21 Mai 2012 schrieb David Pottage: > Hello > > I have a Qnap TS-110, which I am using as a home mail and web server for > the past year. It runs Debian Squeeze. > > I am considering replacing the hard drive inside with a small SSD, now > that prices have come down. Has anyone else done that? Can anyone report > experiences good or bad with such a set-up?
I had only 1st and 2nd Generation SSD's. With those wear from write access was a heavy issue. More recent drives should have little worries there, but I read in many manufacturers descriptions that their drives are "optimized for NTFS and FAT" - which reads like if they'd blow running ext3/4 or any other decent journaling system. > > Apart from reducing power consumption, and noise I am hoping that the > faster seek time of a SSD will make the server more responsive. I > occasionaly access my mail via squirrelmail web mail, and when I do I > can hear the hard drive seeking a lot. Running strace on the Apache > process confirms that the server is accessing a lot of files to service > each request, so I hope that squirrelmail would benefit from an SSD. When search time is the issue, a SSD is an enormous speedup. The only thing even faster are Ramdrives - those boxes you plug in DIMM-RAM's - but there you'll end up with a 16GB drive for 90€, and I doubt you're needing the 600MB/s throughput on read & write that these drives offer. > > Is an SSD a worthwhile investment, or will it make little difference? Personal opinion here: I still have a slight toothache thinking about long- term reliability with lotsa writing in conjunction with SSD's. So, as for wotrthwhile: Remember to make backups or get two drives and make a RAID0, or get 3 and make a RAID5. But I am paranoid. Considering search-time might be your Achilles-heel, a SSD should be a major improvement. > > Will there be any difficuty fitting one? (I have one of those sheet > steel adaptors for fitting 2.5" drives into a 3.5" bay). No worries as for fitting: in the worst case doublesided sticky tape will hold the drive in place. Its doing so in my netbook since 4 years, which is constantly being lugged around. Powersupply, noise and heat will also show an amiable change toward the better. > > Thank you. Ish' Okies. -- Rüdiger Leibrandt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
