On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Russell Coker <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 15 Dec 2012, Aryan Ameri <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Daniel Dalton <[email protected]> > wrote: >> > 2. What tweaks do people use to prolong ssd life and also improve >> > performance? >> >> Leave 20% of the disk as unpartitioned, spare area, it will greatly >> help performance and consistency of I/O. >> >> http://www.anandtech.com/show/6489/playing-with-op > > The article you cited stated that the use of TRIM combined with spare space in > the filesystem should give all the benefits of having unpartitioned space.
Yes that is true, if the OS supports TRIM, just leaving about 20% unused should provide the same results. However I have found TRIM support on linux to be a bit spotty, depending on the distribution, kernel, filesystem, etc. > The > graph part made no sense to a skim read so I'm not sure what they are on about > with that. Really?! I thought the graphs are very clear. > I guess that the real issue is to just not fill your storage and make sure > TRIM > is working. This is certainly true. Making sure TRIM is working is the single best thing you can do with a SSD. Also make sure your filesystem is not doing some sort of re-ordering/defragmenting is vital. As for life expectancy, the Sammy 830 is a very good SSD with very intelligent firmware. It should easily last you a good 5 years even if you are writing 100GB every single day to it. Unless you are doing video production or something of that nature on the machine, I would say don't worry about it. Cheers -- Aryan _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
