Ubuntu or Centos I ment... On 1/24/12 12:33 PM, Bill Putney wrote: > James, > > Thanks! Any known issues with either Ubuntu or Centex? > > Bill Putney - KPTZ Port Townsend, WA > > On 1/24/12 12:26 PM, James Harrison wrote: >> I've tried a few SSDs out at this point. OCZs have failed on me, >> Corsairs have been solid and reliable. Intels are also purportedly very >> reliable, especially their enterprisey ones, but they're a bundle more >> expensive - Corsair are a good middle ground as far as I can tell. >> >> They certainly run cooler, though not by a lot - I have thermal >> monitoring on all my drives (thin-wire thermocouples attached with >> thermal compound to the top of the disk) and they're all around 40c, HDD >> or SSD, with an ambient case temp of 25c. If you want a big noise >> reduction, make sure you replace the stock CPU cooler with something >> larger - Zalman do some great aircoolers which run slow and quiet, or >> you could go for a Corsair H50, which will keep an i5 dead cold but is >> pretty damn quiet. Depends how you feel on closed-loop >> watercooling... :-) >> >> I'd go for a SATAIII drive like the Corsair Force 3 at this stage. >> They're stupid fast, don't cost much more than the SATAII equivalents >> (and if you're buying a motherboard in this day and age it'll have >> SATAIII anyway), and are just faster than anything I've ever used >> before. I'm currently using a Force 3 as my desktop's primary, a 120GB >> disk. I'd put everything except /var/snd on SSDs - what's the downside? >> >> Just make sure your OS/FS supports TRIM, of course... >> >> James >> >> On 24/01/2012 20:08, Bill Putney wrote: >>> We're moving to 2.1.2 (at last). I need to upgrade one of our machines >>> to a dual core 64 bit machine and I'm thinking of other things we might >>> do to improve things. >>> >>> It seems like the Rivendell client machines would be quite happy on >>> a 60 >>> GB drive (except for the /var/snd which lives on the server). 60 GB SSD >>> drives are under $100 these days and I'm thinking that the reduction of >>> heat and increase in speed might make them good choices for the client >>> machines. They should also be quieter than even the quietest spinning >>> drive. Reduction in the heat load in the boxes might mean that the >>> smart >>> fans will spin a little slower further reducing noise. >>> >>> I am thinking that if there isn't a downside, making the server >>> root/boot drive an SSD too might be a good thing to do just because it >>> might be faster and make database look ups quicker. The /var/snd volume >>> will stay a big spinning drive RAID-5 (or Raid-Z) array of expensive >>> enterprise class drives. >>> >>> Any thoughts or experiences would be appreciated. Any drives to stay >>> away from? Any that have worked well? I saw a comment by one user that >>> said that they had an SSD drive that was lightning fast except for the >>> twice a day when it took 15 second to do some internal function. >>> Clearly >>> that's not something I want to have in the automation system. >>> >>> Bill Putney - KPTZ Port Townsend, WA >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Rivendell-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Rivendell-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >
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