Re: harddrives with built-in NAND fkash
On Feb 7, 2014, at 1:25 PM, Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote: Do they require any special formating or partitioning to take advantage of the 8 gigs of built-in NAND flash? I'm looking at a Seagate Solid State Hybrid drive - ST2000DX001 Thanks for any info and/or suggestions. Ric Fabrice Vaillant replied: I have used the same kind of drive as a main drive on my laptop. While I have no proof that the extra nand where used, I tend to think they were. There wasn't any extra drive showing in gparted or other tool. Plus those nand are used by the drive to store most used file and quicken the loading of them, so I don't think it's the OS job to deal with them. Fabrice I just bought a pair of the Seagate drives to use as system drives for a couple of servers. As I read the specs, Fabrice is correct: The drive itself will figure out what to put in flash based on usage -- the user doesn't get a say. I'm hoping that it will decide to put the interesting parts of root and /usr there (to speed up booting), along with the database indexes for the servers (to speed up normal production use). It would be fun to have some kind of an ioctl to figure out what actually happens... Not much chance of that, I'm guessing, but it sure would be interesting! Anybody who works for Seagate on this list? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8f9f2216-36c3-4be4-bb6c-cca5ab96c...@pobox.com
Re: harddrives with built-in NAND fkash
On 02/08/2014 02:45 AM, Ric Moore wrote: On 02/07/2014 04:39 PM, Fabrice Vaillant wrote: I have used the same kind of drive as a main drive on my laptop. While I have no proof that the extra nand where used, I tend to think they were. There wasn't any extra drive showing in gparted or other tool. Plus those nand are used by the drive to store most used file and quicken the loading of them, so I don't think it's the OS job to deal with them. Thanks! I was wondering about that and didn't want to jump into deep water without looking first. Do you see any improvement ...like boot times? I'd hate for the darn thing to be looking for a Windows file system to be installed. Ric I did find it quick to boot but I was coming from a hold hdd on different system, so I can't directly compare. On the other hand now I have repalced it by a ssd and the boot time seems the same whereas big application like gimp, that I barely use, seems faster, so I'd say this NAND were put to a good use. Don't worry about it needing a windows though. Fabrice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52f5ec53.10...@gmail.com
harddrives with built-in NAND fkash
Do they require any special formating or partitioning to take advantage of the 8 gigs of built-in NAND flash? I'm looking at a Seagate Solid State Hybrid drive - ST2000DX001 Thanks for any info and/or suggestions. Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome. R.I.P. Dad. /https://linuxcounter.net/cert/44256.png / -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52f54f5b.8060...@gmail.com
Re: harddrives with built-in NAND fkash
I have used the same kind of drive as a main drive on my laptop. While I have no proof that the extra nand where used, I tend to think they were. There wasn't any extra drive showing in gparted or other tool. Plus those nand are used by the drive to store most used file and quicken the loading of them, so I don't think it's the OS job to deal with them. Fabrice On 02/07/2014 10:25 PM, Ric Moore wrote: Do they require any special formating or partitioning to take advantage of the 8 gigs of built-in NAND flash? I'm looking at a Seagate Solid State Hybrid drive - ST2000DX001 Thanks for any info and/or suggestions. Ric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52f55289.9020...@gmail.com
