Unless its an enterprise class SSD, i wouldn’t buy them used. consumer SSD don’t have the same life (number of writes) before they roll over. If you actually need the speed of an SSD, just buy a new one.
> On Aug 4, 2016, at 7:26 PM, Michael C. Robinson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Disks are fairly inexpensive. Anything under IT, you can get an SSD > instead of a hard disk for a somewhat reasonable price. Advantages are > higher speed and greater reliability. If you have an existing Linux > system where you absolutely cannot lose the system but you need more > space, consider buying a bigger disk or add an SSD. I think the > person's disk is 250G, so get a 500G SSD and dedicate the whole entire > disk to boot, swap, and /. For 500G, an SSD will cost around $200 or > less. > > http://www.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-850-EVO-500-GB-Internal-2-5-MZ-75E500B- > AM-SSD-/252467674737?hash=item3ac83efe71:g:mrkAAOSw0HVWC6yK > > I've had very good luck with Samsung SSDs. > > There should be a way with the LVM2 tools to copy / to a new disk or > SSD. A 1 terabyte SSD isn't too expensive. Consider /, boot, and swap > on a 1 TB disk or SSD. If you copy your existing system to a larger > disk and disconnect the original drive, your chances of borking your > system beyond retrieval are lessened. > > I'm not recommending E-Bay to buy an SSD, but I've bought a number of > these from E-Bay and haven't had any issues. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -- Louis Kowolowski [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Cryptomonkeys: http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/ <http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/> Making life more interesting for people since 1977
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